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Pseudocassyma uniformis sp. n.


Pseudocassyma uniformis


12mm. The species is slightly larger than its two congeners, sundagraphoides Holloway and retaka Holloway, and lacks the conspicuous dark grey borders to the forewing and apex of the hindwing of those species. The wings are a uniform, slightly reddish fawn, speckled with darker reddish brown. The postmedials of both wings are finely punctate, irregular in course. On the underside the borders distal to the postmedials are darker brown than the rest of the wings, and there are also narrow, irregular medial fasciae. The male genitalia are distinguished from those of the other two species by having saccular processes of the valves extending beyond the rather square valve apex; the basal costal processes of the valve are as in retaka, but the cornuti of the aedeagus vesica are much fewer, though still more numerous than those of sundagraphoides.

Holotype . BORNEO: Sabah, Danum Valley 5.01N, 117.47E, 15.x.1987, 150m (A.H. Kirk-Spriggs), light trap sample, understorey forest, BM geometrid slide 18284.

Paratypes: 2 as holotype but different dates; 1 SABAH: Brumas, Paraserianthes falcataria [plantation] 19.vi. 1991, in FRC, Sepilok.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. All material is from lowland forest, both natural and plantation.

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