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Spaniocentra
apatelloides sp. n.
Spaniocentra apatella West
sensu Holloway, 1976: 61.
Spaniocentra
apatelloides ♂
(holotype)
Spaniocentra
apatelloides ♀
(paratype) |
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♂♂15-17mm,
♀♀ 16-18mm. In
facies this species resembles S. apatella West (Philippines, Sulawesi)
and S. undiferata Walker (Sulawesi), but has distinctive male genitalia.
In the related species there is a single, simple saccular spine, very short in apatella. In apatelloides
this is moderate but less tapering, rugose, apically blunt, with a second
spine twice as long, tapering, running alongside, arising subcostally near the
base of the valve. The broad aedeagus has a massive patch of cornuti in the
vesica. There are two such patches in the aedeagus of undiferata but in apatella
the aedeagus is narrow, the cornuti much smaller, shorter.
Holotype ♂ SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.
Holloway et al.) Site 3, January, Camp 4, Mulu, 1780m, 453443, montane
forest, BM geometrid slide 10659.
Paratypes: 1♀ general data as holotype but Site 1,
same general locality and altitude, BM geometrid slide 8641; 3♂♂ 1♀ NORD BORNEO:
Mount Kina Balu, 5.8.1903 (John Waterstradt); 1♂ SABAH: Mt Kinabalu, Park
H.Q., 1620m, vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt. Kinabalu 1965 (H.J.
Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway) Brit. Mus. 1968-186, BM geometrid
slide 8936.
Geographical range. Borneo.
Habitat preference. All records are from upper montane
forest. At present the species is only known from G. Kinabalu and G. Mulu.
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