Image of Althonarosa cretacea Holloway ♂ (holotype)
♂ (holotype)

Althonarosa cretacea Holloway sp. n.

♂♂ 13mm. The forewing facies is as in horisyaensis, though the markings are somewhat fainter. The male genitalia differ in lacking the spines on the apex of the somewhat sinuous aedeagus, and in having a triangular flap in the saccular zone of the valve and a central prong extending from a ridge between more angular lateral lobes of the juxta.

Holotype ♂

SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) BM 1978-206, Site 25, April, G. Api, 900m, 427550, Lower montane forest. BM limacodid slide 690.

Paratypes

4 ♂♂ as holotype.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The type series is from lower montane forest on limestone.

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (1)


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