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Callopistria
alfredi sp. n.
Callopistria
alfredi 
(holotype) |
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9-10mm. This species resembles a small C. pulchrilinea Walker but has the
antemedial more regularly angular, less broken anteriorly; the postmedial is
more irregularly sinuous anteriorly, less strongly curved posteriorly; the white
submarginal flecks are set more obliquely to each other, less colinear. The male
genitalia are rather elongate, the valve unadorned except for a slight tuft of
hair-scales at the base of the valve exteriorly.
Holotype
BORNEO: Sarawak (A.R. Wallace) 74-69, BM
noctuid slide 2370.
Paratype.
1
as holotype.
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat
preference. No
recent material is available. The type material was probably from lowland
localities in Sarawak.
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