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“Meganola”
apiensis
sp. n.
"Meganola" apiensis
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8mm. The forewings are relatively narrow, pale grey, with an oblique, fine,
black postmedial forming the diameter of a ring of black dots contributed by the
antemedial and submarginal fasciae. There is a somewhat oblong subbasal black
mark on the costa. The hindwing venation is quadrifine but the facies is
atypical of “Meganola. The male genitalia have an uncus similar to that
of basalactifera
but oval rather than tapering. The valves are also similar, but the harpe has
the distal spur rather broad, excavate at the apex, and the basal one extended
considerably to the interior, angled upwards and invested with slender spines
apically. The aedeagus vesica is small, without cornuti.
Holotype
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SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.Holloway et al.),
Site 25, April, G. Api, 900m. 427550, lower montane forest, BM noctuid slide
17043.
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. The only specimen is from lower montane forest on
limestone.
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