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Loxotephria
bornea sp.
n.
Loxotephria padanga Swinhoe
sensu Holloway, 1976: 79.
Loxotephria
bornea
(paratype,
in USNM) |
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13-14mm,
15mm. In facies this species is very similar to padanga Swinhoe
from Sumatra, but with the pale mauve bands of each wing (formed in the forewing
at least by the postmedial and submarginal) somewhat narrower. The main
differences are in the male genitalia. In padanga the left furca is as
long as the valve, the right reduced to a small acute spine; in bornea the
left furca is slender, longer than the valve, the right furca half the length of
the left. The valve ventral margin is smoothly curved in bornea, obtusely
angled centrally in padanga. The cornuti of the aedeagus vesica are
relatively longer in padanga.
Holotype . SABAH:
Mt Kinabalu, Power Station, 1930m, vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt
Kinabalu, 1965 (H.J. Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway) Brit.
Mus. 1968-186, BM geometrid slide 12729.
Paratypes: 1
SABAH: Mt Kinabalu, Park H.Q., 1620m, general data
as holotype, BM geometrid slide 9256; 2, 1 MALAYSIA:
Sabah, 1km S. Kundasang, el.
1530m. 24,27 Aug 1983 (G. F. Hevel & W.E. Steiner), in USNM.
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. The specimens were taken in the upper montane zone of
G. Kinabalu (lower montane as defined in Holloway (1970)).
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