Image of Berta anteplaga Prout ♂

Berta anteplaga Prout

Berta anteplaga Prout, 1916, Novit. zool., 23: 208.

Berta chrysolineata Walker, sensu Holloway, 1976: 63 (partim), fig. 431.

Diagnosis

The species has the colour and marking of B. albiplaga but is distinguished by a large, rather trapezoid white patch at the centre of the forewing costa.

Taxonomic Notes

The Bornean specimen shares general features of the eighth sternite (a moustache-like sclerotisation) and genitalia (a digitate lobe from the distal end of the groove on the valve), but the former is more rectangular, less of a chevron, and the latter is broader, more rounded than in typical anteplaga (Fig 403).

Geographical range

N.E. Himalaya; Borneo.

Habitat preference

The single Bornean specimen was taken at 1500m in the Mesilau Plateau of G. Kinabalu.

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (10)


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