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Dura
pseudalba sp.
n.
Dura alba Moore sensu Schintlmeister,
1994: 117.
Dura
pseudalba 
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15-16mm
This is a smaller species than amianta, but otherwise very similar in
fades. The forewings are perhaps relatively broader, with a slightly darker
brown spot at the end of the posterior arm of the discal chevron. The margins of
both wings are slightly more darkly punctate in the spaces. These features tend
to disappear in worn specimens, but the male genitalia are distinctive. They
resemble those of alba Moore (= ippoline Schintlmeister as
determined from the genitalia illustration and description, syn. n.), but
have a much longer uncus and shorter, more equal valve processes. The eighth sternite is weakly
bilobed rather than biangular.
Holotype . BRUNEI:
30-60m, Labi, lowland forest and secondary veg., 10.9.79 (Lt. Col. M.G.
Allen) BM lymantriid slide 2355.
Paratypes: 4 SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park,
R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.
Holloway et al.) Sites 11 (150m, G. Mulu), 19 (100m, W. Melinau
Gorge, alluvial forest), 23 and 24 (250m and 270m, W. Melinau Gorge, forest on
limestone), BM lymantriid slide 2356 (site 24).
Geographical range. Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia.
Habitat preference. This is a rarer species than amianta and has
only been taken in lowland forest.
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