Amata brooksi Holloway sp. n.
Diagnosis
♂ 14mm, ♀ 15mm.This species has the same white markings on black wings as the elisa group, but the forewings are more elongate, narrow, as are the white markings, particularly the distal pair. The two specimens are worn so it is uncertain whether the forewing apex is white as in the next two species. The abdomen has basal and distal rings as in elisa but they are white as in the next two species. In the male genitalia the aedeagus vesica has one row of cornuti set distally in the vesica, densely packed together, with an isolated pair of cornuti on the opposite side. The right valve is triangular, one strong angle subbasally on the costa; the left valve is more irregular. The basal costal processes of the valves are sharply angled centrally, the right one longer, apically bifid.
Holotype ♂
Bidi, SARAWAK, 1907-1908 (C.J. Brooks) BM arctiid slide 4217.
Paratype
1 ♀ as holotype.
Geographical range
Borneo.
Habitat preference
Both specimens are from the same lowland locality.
Genitalia:
