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Micropacha
roepkei sp. n.
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Micropacha
roepkei 
(paratype)
(natural
size)
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16-17mm,
25mm.
The general coloration is a rufous brown rather than dark brown (kalisi),
the forewing with strongly curved, double, crenulate, fine antemedial and
postmedial fasciae in darker brown. The discal spot is diagnostically pale
and there are pale grey markings on the margin near the apex of the
forewing. The male genitalia are as described and distinguished from those
of kalisi in the generic account. The right valve consists of two slender
processes, the left of only one, equivalent to the lower one on the right.
Holotype
BRUNEI:
15m, Daerah Belait, swamp forest, 20.12.79 (Lt. Col. M. G. Allen) BM
lasiocampid slide 1062.
Paratypes. 1
Ulu Temburong Expedition 1978, BRUNEI, Base Camp 350m LP283, 15.x.1978
(T. W. Harman); 1
SARAWAK:
Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) Site
24, April, W. Melinau Gorge, 270m, 430558, FEG4 Limestone forest,
understorey; 1
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Sintang, BORNEO, inland of Pontianak, March 1910 (Dr Martin).
Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra.
Habitat preference. The species appears to be rare but present in a wide
range of lowland forest types.
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