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Scopula
insolata aequibrachiata ssp. n.
Craspedia insolata Butler, 1889, Illustr. typ. Specimens
Lepid. Het. Colln Br. Mus., 7:109.
Acidalia satsumaria
Leech, 1897, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 20: 91.
Acidalia butleri Prout, 1913, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 4:
78.
Scopula
insolata 
(paratype of aequibrachiata)
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7-8mm. The wing markings are as in typical insolata, though not
so clearly defined, and the forewing postmedial is narrower. The central element
of this is contiguous with the rest and of even width as in insolata. In S.
pedilata Felder (Sri Lanka, Bali) it is broader, of more even brown tone,
and with constrictions separating it from the rest of the fascia. In the male
abdomen, the cerata of the eighth sternite are of unequal length (left, half
of right and more strongly curved) in typical insolata, but more or less
equal, long in the Bornean race.
Holotype . SARAWAK:
Gunung Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) Site
25, April, G. Api, 900m. 427550. lower montane forest BM geometrid slide 17781.
Paratypes: 2 as holotype but site 23, W. Melinau Gorge, 250m, 430558, FEG
4, limestone; 2 as holotype but sites 8, 9, Camp 1 Mulu, 140m, 150m, mixed dipt.
for.
Geographical range. N.E. Himalaya, Sumatra, China; Japan (ssp. satsumaria);
Borneo.
Habitat preference. Four specimens are from lowland forest, one from
lower montane forest. The latter and two of the lowland specimens were from
limestone.
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