TRIBE ARCTORNITHINI n.
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Arctornis bicalcaratus sp. n


Arctornis bicalcaratus ♂ (holotype)


♂♂ 14,15mm. The facies and genitalia are much as in calcariphallus, but the longer spur on the aedeagus is more robust, straight, adpressed, and the smaller much more robust, hooked.

Holotype ♂. BORNEO: Sabah, Danum Valley, 5� 01N, 117� 47E, 18.x.1987, 100m, (A.H. Kirk-Spriggs) primary forest edge, BM lymantriid slide 2111.

Paratype ♂. As holotype but 20.x.1987, BM lymantriid slide 2110.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. Both specimens were taken at the edge of lowland dipterocarp forest in the Danum Valley Field Centre clearing.

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