Beara tortriciformis Strand

Hylophilodes tortriciformis Strand, 1917, Arch. Naturgesch., 82 (A1): 145.

Beara dilatata Holloway, 1982: 234.

Beara dilatata Holloway; Kobes, 1997: 80.

Diagnosis

See nubiferella above.

The scales of the coremata are browner, the costa of the valve angled rather than with a thorn.

The aedeagus is narrower, the vesica small.

The female has a long narrow ductus leading to a spherical, unthickened bursa without a signum or scobination apart from a sclerotised band from the distal end of the ductus running into the bursa.

Taxonomic Notes

The synonymy was established in Heppner & Inoue (1992).

Geographical range

Taiwan, N.E. Himalaya, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.

Habitat preference

Three specimens have been taken in recent surveys, two from lowland forest at Semengok near Kuching and one from alluvial forest at the foot of G. Mulu.

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