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Ariola triangulifera Warren

Ariola triangulifera Warren, 1912, Novit. Zool., 19: 46.

Ariola triangulifera Warren; Kobes, 1997: 24.

Diagnosis

See the previous species; the forewing division is angled rather than curved.

Taxonomic Notes

Sundanian material differs from that further east in the aedeagus vesica, where there are three long, unequal, slender cornuti appressed at their base, rather than four shorter ones, adjacent but not appressed.

Geographical range

Solomons, Bismarcks, New Guinea, Sulawesi; Sundaland.

Habitat preference

The four specimens taken in recent surveys have been in lowland alluvial forest (2), lower montane forest at 1000m (G. Mulu) and at 1670m on Bukit Pagon in Brunei.

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Species (4)


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