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SUBFAMILY
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Calymniops convergens sp. n. (Plate 2, Figs 34, 53) GG, EE 16-18mm. Both this and the next species are grey rather than the pale brown of trapezata, and have three more or less straight fasciae to the forewing rather than having the postmedial, and to some extent the medial, angled where they are crossed by, or converge with, an arcuate line from the middle of the costa to the distal margin just posterior to the apex. In convergens the three lines are decreasingly oblique distad, and therefore they are convergent in the direction of the tornus. Males have the hindwing area greater than in the female, overlapping extensive scent hairs over the posterior of the underside of the forewing, which has a zone of black, glossy scales anterior to this. In the male abdomen, the eighth tergite has a distinct structure like the ring‑pull on a drink can, and the sternite is anteriorly very broad, such that the longitudinal bands of sclerotisation are strongly convergent towards the posterior. The genitalia have corematous structures subbasally on the exterior of the valve, which is narrow but rounded apically, and has a prominent interior spur from the saccular area. The aedeagus vesica in both Bornean species has a subbasal cluster of spines and two distal zones of finer spines or scobination rather than a small central area of sclerotisation. In convergens the distal zones are smaller, more numerous, curved and packed together, and the spines in the subbasal cluster are more extensive. The female genitalia have the corpus bursae and appendix bursae about twice as long as those of the type species; both are coiled. Holotype G. BRUNEI: 300m, Ulu Temburong, rainforest, 3.6.1979 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen), BM noctuid slide 18029. Paratypes: 1G (damaged) as holotype but different date; 1G BRUNEI: 30‑60m, Labi, lowland forest, 28.8.79 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen); 1G SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.Holloway et al.), Site 8, February, Camp 1, Mulu, 150m. 385470, mixed dipt. for.; 1G B.N. BORNEO, Kretam, 25.viii.1950 (J.D.H. Hedley); 4GG, 1E (slide 18616) BORNEO: Sabah, Danum Valley, 5°01' N, 117° 47' E, various dates, 1987, 100‑150m (A.H. Kirk‑Spriggs), understorey, forest edge and roadside in logged forests; 1E INDONESIA: Borneo, Kalimantan Tengah, Barito Ulu 2001, at Busang / Rekut River Junction, 0° 03' S, 113°59' E, viii.2001 (G. Martin); 1G SABAH: Sandakan, Sepilok Arboretum Canopy Tower, 50m, 26.ix.2006 (Chey, V.K., Kashizaki, A., Momin, B., Mathius, A.) (in FRC, Sepilok). Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia (Barlow colln), Sumatra (HS / K). Habitat preference. All material is from lowland dipterocarp forest. The species is more frequent than the next. |
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