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Idiochlora subexpressa Walker 
   
Thalera subexpressa Walker, 1861, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln. Br Mus., 22: 599.


Idiochlora subexpressa (holotype)


Diagnosis and taxonomic notes.
This species is represented by a male in the Natural History Museum (slide 17397) and the holotype male in the University Museum, Oxford, both collected by A.R.Wallace. The postmedials are faintly darker, brownish, rather straight, edged narrowly paler distad. The male genitalia have a strong, acute angle to the centre of the valve costa, and a shallow, slightly downturned saccular process.

Geographical range. Borneo, ?Peninsular Malaysia (Penang).

Habitat preference. This is probably a lowland species.

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