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“Meganola”
manoboides
sp. n.
"Meganola" manoboides
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9mm. The general facies, particularly of the forewing, is similar to that of the
many
Manoba
species described later, but the hindwing has quadrifine venation, with M3 and
CuA1 stalked. The forewing postmedial is shallowly sigmoid, and the antemedial
is curved concave basad. There is a series of dark marks on the cosa: a subbasal
oblong, a central triangle and two smaller flecks distal to the postmedial. The
wing grades darker grey towards the distal margin, enclosing an irregular pale
submarginal. The male genitalia have the uncus similar to
basalactifera
and the next species, but the valve is broadest centrally, with a triangular
flap from the costa directed ventrally within this broad part. The harpe is
relatively basal, broad, rather like a cupped hand. The aedeagus is short, the
vesica unevenly bilobed and extensively scobinate. The female has a short ductus,
an elongate, pyriform corpus bursae with a small, subapical, balloon-like
appendix bursae, and, at the base of the expanded part of the bursa, a single
small signum of the derived type.
Holotype
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SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.Holloway et al.),
Site 15, February, Mulu, Camp 2.5, 1000m. 413461, lower montane forest, BM
noctuid slide 17103.
Paratypes:
2
(slide 17775) as holotype but Site 16, March, Long Pala (Base), 70m. 324460,
alluv./second. for.; 1
as holotype but Site 8, February, Camp 1, Mulu, 150m. 385470, mixed dipt. for.;
1
MALAYSIA: Sabah, Tawau Hill, 300m along Sungei Tawau near trail to Air Panas
river bed in primary/riverine forest, at light, 28.iii.2001 (J.P. & M.J.
Duffels) (in Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam).
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. Material was taken in forest from the lowlands to 1000m.
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