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SUBFAMILY
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Stenoloba pendleburyi sp. n. (Plate 2, Figs 132, 133) GG 10mm, EE 13mm. The forewings are a pale grey, though with a slight caramel tinge basal to the postmedial. The fasciae are fine and black as illustrated, the postmedial running obliquely straight to the costa rather than angling in to it as in the other Sundanian species. The reniform and orbicular stigmata are very faint, and the hindwings are a darker grey. The male genitalia have valves similar to those of robusta and elegans but the aedeagus vesica is strongly scobinate over the distal half, leading to a massive and centrally flexed cornutus. The female genitalia have a short, unsclerotised, funnel-like ductus bursae. The corpus bursae is much shorter than in robusta and elegans, square and strongly sclerotised. Holotype G. MALAYA: Kuala Lumpur Gardens (Coll. H.M. Pendlebury) 14.2.1941, BM noctuid slide 20961. Paratypes: 1G MALAY PENIN: Selangor, F.M.S., Kuala Lumpur, at light, Sept. 20th 1929 (H.M. Pendlebury); 1E (slide 20963) as previous but November; 1E MALAYA: Kuala Lumpur, at light, April 20th, 1931 (H.M. Pendlebury). Taxonomic note. A further male from Peninsular Malaysia (slide 20999) with facies generally as above but with greener suffusion and a slightly more irregular antemedial at the base of the forewing, and, in the genitalia, shorter, less curved valves and a smaller saccus, is excluded from the type series, but is obviously very closely related, even if not conspecific. A female specimen from Java (slide 20965) has similar facies to pendleburyi, but the ductus bursae is narrower and the corpus bursae is more rhomboidal and sclerotised on one side only. Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo (slide 20960). Habitat preference. The only Bornean specimen seen is a male taken on a tree canopy platform in lowland dipterocarp forest at 170m near the Danum Valley Field Centre in Sabah. |
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