Image of Buzara saikehi Holloway ♂

Buzara saikehi Holloway sp. n.

The male genitalia are very similar to those of chrysomela and feneratrix, with larger valves than the more easterly, white-banded section of the flexed process group, but this process is long, slender, and the pair of processes on the left valve are also slender, relatively straight, and closely associated.

Holotype ♂

[SABAH]: Ranau, Mamut, Mei, ‘93 [Saikeh Lantoh et al.]. In FRC, Sepilok.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The locality is in an area of disturbed (copper mine) lowland forest to the south-east of G. Kinabalu. The specimen was collected on a hill top (approx. 1000m) overlooking the canopy of a stretch of undisturbed hill dipterocarp forest.

Genitalia:

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Species (4)


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