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Loxioda
sp.
Loxioda
similis Moore
sensu
Holloway,
1976: 36.
A single
male of this species was taken at 1620m in an area of disturbed vegetation on G.
Kinabalu. It is larger than the previous two, resembling the Himalayan similis Moore
and dissimilis
Moore in size, possibly closer to the
latter in its rather yellowish fawn ground colour. It is rather worn but has
fasciation much as in dilutalis. The genitalia (slide 9416) indicate it may be a new
species, the valves being relatively longer than in the three species just
mentioned, and having a small lobe at about two-thirds on the narrower section.
The tegumen and vinculum are approximately equal as in dilutalis;
in similis
and
particularly dissimilis,
the vinculum is longer than the tegumen.
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