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Agathia
largita sp. n.
Agathia hilarata latilimes ab.
largita Prout, 1932, Gross-Schmett. Erde 12: 70.
Agathia
largita 
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17-18mm. There is a general resemblance to A. quinaria
latilimes but the brown marginal zones are broader, grading paler towards
the margin. The medial fascia dividing the green area of the forewing is more
oblique such that the distal portion of green is triangular rather than
approximately rectangular. The male genitalia indicate largita is
distinct from quinaria and hilarata. The valve costa terminates in
a short, curved spine, and there is a diagnostic sinuous spinose fold between it
and the saccular angle.
Holotype NORD BORNEO: Mont Kina Balu, 5.8.1903 (John
Waterstradt). Holotype of ab. largita Prout.
Paratypes: 1 as
holotype, paratype of largita Prout,
BM geometrid slide 16787; l BRUNEI,
Temburong, L.P. 283, 350m. 15.x.1978 (T. W.
Harman).
Geographical range. Borneo, Sumatra.
Habitat preference. A rare lowland species, largita has
only been taken once in recent surveys, at 350m in the hill dipterocarp forest
of Ulu Temburong, Brunei.
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