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Mythimna (Aletia)
calorai sp. n.
Aletia franclemonti Calora sensu Holloway, 1976: 9.
  18-19mm.
The species is larger than exsanguis (see Mythimna
(Aletia) exsanguis Guenee), with the underside of
the wings only weakly silvered; the hindwings are generally darker. The male
genitalia are more as in decississima in the shape of the cucullus, the
length of its neck and the curvature of the harpe from the sacculus. The apex of
the harpe is distinctively spatulate. The aedeagus vesica has a prominent
lateral lobe as in decississima, but the clustered cornuti distal to it
are much longer, more slender than in that species, more as in exsanguis.
Holotype
BRUNEI: 300m, Ulu Temburong, rainforest, 10.2.1980 (Lt. Col. M.G.
Allen) BM noctuid slide 13936.
Paratypes:
2
SABAH: Kundasan, 1050m, Cambridge Expedition to Mt. Kinabalu 1965 (H.J.
Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway) Brit. Mus. 1968-86, BM noctuid
slides 9029, 9030; 1
SABAH: Bundu Tuhan, 1200m, Cambridge Expedition etc., BM noctuid slide 9031.
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat
preference. The
material listed has mostly been taken in cultivated areas just above 1000m. Only
the holotype was taken in forest at a lower altitude.
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