SUBFAMILY HYPENINAE
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Throanagonia tiara sp. n.
    
 

Throanagonia tiara ♀
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♀♀ 10mm and 11mm. The species is closer in size to the type species than to corona, but closer in facies to the latter, having a less emphatically darker zone of submarginal fasciation on the forewing. On the hindwing underside, the paler areas are a more speckled grey than in the female of corona. The diagnostic features are in the genitalia, where the lamella postvaginalis has a more extensive, rounded margin than in corona, with a few more than six irregular spines distally and one or two shorter spines on a lateral expansion of the margin on each side. There is a slight lobe subbasally on the ductus of the paratype (illustrated), but this is barely evident on the holotype.

Holotype ♀. SARAWAK: Santubong Mt., 300m, 10.ix.1981, Oxford Far East Exped., BM noctuid slide 19912.

Paratype ♀. INDONESIA: Borneo, Kalimantan Tengah, Barito Ulu 2001 at Busang Rekut River Junction, 0° 03' S, 113° 59' E, viii.2001 (G. Martin), BM noctuid slide 20068.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. Both specimens are from lowland forest.

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