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The scale of measurement given
in description of new species is from the centre of the thorax to the forewing
apex. Genitalia slide numbers always refer to the BMNH sequence for Noctuidae
except for some Nolinae that were included in the Arctiidae sequence; this is
specified when it occurs.
Information on habitat preference has been gained almost entirely from light
trap surveys of G. Kinabalu (Holloway, 1976), the G. Mulu National Park
(Holloway, 1984), from collections made by Col. M.G. Allen, T.W. Harman and
colleagues in Brunei, by G. Martin in Kalimantan and by A.H. Kirk-Spriggs and Dr
S.J. Willott in Sabah. Additional data on the fauna of softwood plantations and
material from the Forest Research Centre Collection, Sepilok, have kindly been
made available by Dr Chey Vun Khen of the Sabah Forest Department (Chey, 1994).
Broad vegetation categories were discussed in Part 4 of this series.
Data on geographical range are mainly from the collections of The Natural
History Museum (BMNH), but with some additional data on the Sumatran fauna that
have been made available through the collecting activities of Dr E. Diehl and
other members of the Heterocera Sumatrana Society (Kobes, 1997). Data for
Peninsular Malaysia are supplemented from the collections of Mr H.S. Barlow and
some records for Palawan were obtained during a visit to the Zoological Museum,
University of Copenhagen (ZMUC).
A few host-plant data are drawn from unpublished records of the International
Institute of Entomology. These are collated from material submitted to the
Institute for identification from throughout the Indo-Australian tropics. Of
particular note in recent years are records from material submitted by the
Indian Central Agricultural Research Institute Station in the Andaman Is. All
such records have now been published by Robinson et al. (2001). Plant
nomenclature follows Mabberley (1987).
Holotypes of new taxa have been deposited in The Natural History Museum except
where indicated to the contrary.
Nomenclatural details of all genus-group names are to be found in Nye (1975),
and are therefore not repeated here. Nye did not indicate generic gender. Whilst
the Code of Zoological Nomenclature stipulates that adjectival species-group
names should agree in gender with the genus-group name, the application of this
is fraught with difficulty (Holloway, 1993[4]). Given modern requirements for
computerised database construction, and given the confusion that rectification
would be likely to cause amongst users of biosystematics not familiar with the
niceties of the Latin language, all species names given here have the
orthography of the original description. The reader should also note that the
convention of putting author names in parentheses, where the genus of
combination is not the original one, has not been followed as the situation is
clear from the synonymy attached to each species treated.
Efforts have been made to examine all
relevant type specimens. Most are in The Natural History Museum but there are
also significant holdings in the University Museum Oxford (mostly material
collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in Sarawak and described by Francis Walker)
and in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum “Naturalis”, Leiden (types of
Snellen, Heylaerts, van Eecke and Roepke).
Nielsen, Edwards & Rangsi (1996) stated that infrasubspecific names of Strand,
mostly based on unnamed ‘ab.’ categories of Hampson (1912), were validated by
Gaede (1937-1938) in Gross-Schmett. Erde 11. This opinion is
followed here, but the Strand names are only listed in the synonymies for each
species when so validated by Gaede. |
