Bornolis kamburonga Holloway comb. n.

Hadena kamburonga Holloway, 1976: 8.

Image of [object Object] Holloway ♀

Diagnosis

The forewings are dark brown marked with pale fawn in a characteristic manner: a curved postmedial; a prominent orbicular; a ’ Hadena-like’ wedge running from the orbicular towards the tornus, stopping at the postmedial.

Taxonomic Note

Bornolis Holloway is transferred to the Xylenini from the Hadenini (see above). Since this genus was described in Part 12, it has acquired several congeners and therefore is no longer an example of Bornean generic endemism. Hacker (1992: 86‐87) transferred two N. Indian species to it, B. flavistigma Moore and B. niveiplaga Walker. He placed it in the Cuculliinae and indicated a relationship to Blepharita Hampson, a genus of the Xylenini in Fibiger & Hacker (2005). Hacker & Peks (1992: 128) added B. dufayi Boursin from the same region. The genus was extended further west to Iran, Turkmenistan, E. Turkey and Oman by Ronkay, Varga & Hreblay (1998), in the form of B. crinomima Wiltshire and its subspecies diluta Ronkay, Varga & Hreblay and jabaliya Wiltshire. The Bornean type species has an obtusely bifid structure that could be interpreted as a digitus.

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