SUBFAMILY SARROTHRIPINI
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Mniothripa sp. 17096

 


Mniothripa sp. 17096


A female (9mm) from the lowlands of Kalimantan (85 miles above [N. of or upstream from?] Pontianak) is a paler grey than fletcheri on the forewing, with a straight rather than curved antemedial, so it may represent a sixth Bornean species. The genitalia have a narrow ostium and a ductus that expands gently over some length before widening abruptly into a large, pyriform bursa. The ductus seminalis arises from one-third along the ductus, and beyond it one side has a band of sclerotisation that runs up to the bursa. There are two four-spined spicules, one near the base of the ductus and one in the ductus seminalis, presumably for the aedeagus vesica of the otherwise unkown male and indicating closer affinity to argenteopurpurea and lichenigera than to the bradleyi group.

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