Penicillifera purpurascens Holloway
Ocinara purpurascens Holloway, 1976: 86.
Penicillifera purpurascens Holloway; Dierl, 1979, Spixiana, 3: 256.
Diagnosis. The insect is a uniformly dull purplish grey.
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. The three known specimens were all taken in very tall
montane forest on the Mesilau Plateau at 1500m on G. Kinabalu. This
habitat has now been destroyed and replaced by a golf course and a cattle
ranch.
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