SUBFAMILY HERMINIINAE
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Polypogon warleyi sp. n.
    

 

Polypogon warleyi
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11 and 12mm. This is a relatively robust species for the genus. The antennae are strongly fasciculate. The foreleg has the tibial sheath and tarsus longer than the femur. The tarsus consists mostly of the first segment, extending almost to the end of the sheath, and there is also a very small second segment with a claw at its apex. This configuration is unique within the species of the genus studied by Owada (1987) and here. The forewings are a medium buff-brown with black markings: a bipunctate discal mark; an oblique, irregularly crenulate antemedial; an angled, more regularly crenulate postmedial; irregular markings submarginally near the tornus; marginal dashes with paler colour at the very margin. The hindwings are paler, irrorated with a less rich, but darker brown than the forewings, with obscure, darker, dentate postmedial and submarginal fasciae. The latter has a whitish zigzag within its distal edge. The abdomen is the same colour as the forewing but has a transverse, centrally broken, narrow white ring subbasally. The male abdomen has the eighth segment unmodified, with the apodemes of the tergite well separated. The male genitalia have the valves narrow, rectangular, with a triangular saccular process inturned from the centre of the ventral margin. The juxta is a large, rather ovate plate with coarse spining over its lateral margins distally. The aedeagus vesica is generally finely scobinate but has no cornuti.

Holotype . SABAH: K.K., Kiansom [Kionsom], 30.iii.1997 (D.J.L. Agassiz), BM noctuid slide 20318.

Paratype . SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.), Site 15, February, Camp 2.5, Mulu, 1000m. 413461, lower montane for., BM noctuid slide 19977.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. The holotype is from an area of disturbed and secondary forest at about 170m, and the paratype is from lower montane forest.

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