TRIBE BOLETOBIINI
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Maguda danum sp. n.
9mm. The wings are blackish up to the postmedials, beyond which they are paler and diffusely fasciated. The postmedial border on the hindwing is straight but the fasciation distal to it is curved. All of the specimens are rather worn. The male genitalia are similar to those of suffusa, except the saccus is much broader, the most interior process dorsally on the saccular margin of the valve is shorter, blunter, the central process is more robust and more strongly and evenly incurved, and the outer process is flexed slightly outward at the apex. The uncus is more expanded subapically.


Maguda danum
(holotype)


Holotype . MALAYSIA: Sabah, Danum Valley, 170m, 4°58' N 117°48' E (S.J. Willott), 1° understorey, W9, West Trail, DVFC, 1.vii.95; 1 1° understorey, W9, West Trail, DVFC, 1.iv.95, BM noctuid slide 19227.

Paratypes (general data as holotype): 1 1° understorey, ER, East Ridge, DVFC, 19.vii.94; 1 (abdomen missing) 1° understorey, East Ridge, DVFC, 7.iii.94.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. All specimens are from the understorey of lowland dipterocarp forest.

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