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Maxates
melancholica Prout comb. n.
Gelasma melancholica Prout,
1912, Genera Insectorum, 129: 149.
Maxates
melancholica 
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Maxates
melancholica
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Diagnosis. This and most of the species following
are small, a dull olive green, with distinctly crenulate white fasciae. Most
have ornamentation such as spining on
the distal margin of the male eighth sternite, and a relatively long, acute
process to the ventral margins of the valve, though melancholica has an
unmodified sternite and a rather sinuous, sclerotised, rugose ventral process.
Geographical range. Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia.
Habitat preference. Recently collected material consists of three specimens from lower
montane forest at 1000m on G. Mulu.
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