SUBFAMILY HYPENINAE
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Modunga palpigera Walker
     Modunga palpigera Walker, 1863, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 27: 84.
 

Modunga palpigera
Figure 31


This species and monobasic genus are represented by the Bornean holotype only, though Poole (1989) erroneously included a second species, discussed as Stadna metaspilata Walker comb. n. below. Only the holotype male (BMNH) has been located. The facies is an undistinguished dull medium brown, the forewings with broad, slightly paler bands subbasally and postmedially on either side of the medial zone that is defined on the costa by short white bars that represent the antemedial and postmedial; the distal margin also has a series of pale dashes with blackish triangles immediately interior to them. The hindwings are unmarked. The eighth segment is of the framed corematous type, flimsy, with the coremata shallow and the tergite rather reduced. The male genitalia are atypical of the Herminiinae and Hypeninae, having a slender uncus with a dorsal spur subapically, elongate, straight valves and sides to the tegumen, a broad but shallow saccus and a slender, straight, rod-like aedeagus. The valves are divided distally into two tongue-like lobes, the more ventral one, possibly an extension of the sacculus, being more heavily sclerotised.

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