Aemene marginipuncta Talbot comb. n.
Parasiccia marginipuncta Talbot, 1926, Sarawak
Mus. J., 3 (2): 136.
Parasiccia marginipuncta Talbot; Holloway, 1976: 3.
Aemene marginipuncta
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Diagnosis.
This is the
largest of the three Bornean species with a white or creamy-white ground colour,
and the only one with bipectinate antennae in the male. Some spots of the
fasciae can be fainter, brownish, and the outer element of the postmedial is
more distinctly bidentate distal to the cell.
Geographical
range. Borneo,
Peninsular Malaysia.
Habitat
preference. Records
are infrequent, from 1660m to 1930m in upper montane forest on G. Mulu, G.
Kinabalu and the type locality, G. Poi (Poeh) in Sarawak.
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