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Pelagodes semengok sp. n. 


Pelagodes semengok (holotype)


16mm. The facies is indistinguishable from that of the previous species. The male abdomen has the following diagnostic features: the eighth segment processes are terminally bifid, with a third spine interiorly just beyond the centre of each; the valve costal spine is strongly curved, slender, acute, rather erect, arising at about two thirds along the costal margin.

Holotype  SARAWAK: Kuching, Semengok, 3-9.ii. 1976 (E. W. Classey) BM geometrid slide 8683.

Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia (FRIM colln), Sumatra.

Habitat preference. The type locality is in lowland rain forest.

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