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Fentonia talboti Gaede comb. n.
Stauropus
pulverulentus Talbot,
1926, J. Sarawak Mus. 3: 143, junior primary homonym of S.
pulverulentus
Wileman.
Stauropus
talboti Gaede,
1930: 627.
Neostauropus
talboti Gaede;
Kiriakoff, 1968: 135.
Fentonia
elongata Holloway,
1976: 57, fig. 373, syn. n., and also junior primary homonym of F.
elongata Dyar.
Diagnosis. See Fentonia bipunctus Rothschild.
Taxonomic note. This is probably the montane sister species of bipunctus; the
sister species to the pair is the N. E. Himalayan notodontina Rothschild.
Geographical range. Borneo, ?Sumatra (the record of notodontina from
Sumatra by Bender & Dierl (1977) may be referable to talboti).
Habitat preference. The holotype female was from G. Murud, Sarawak. The
species has been taken mainly in upper montane forest at about 1600 - 1800 m on
Bukit Pagon, Bukit Retak and G. Mulu, and also from similar altitudes on G.
Kinabalu.
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