Chorsia rogersi Holloway sp. n.

♂ 12mm, The wings are rather worn, but the facies appears to resemble that of kingi. The male genitalia are very different however, with the dorsal process of the uncus spine-like distal to a dish-like plate, and the distal process long, slender, apically hooked and relatively basal, appearing to be based at the apex of the tegumen.

Holotype ♂

BRUNEI: 15m, Telisai, secondary heath forest and Gymnostoma, 3.2.1979 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen), BM noctuid slide 18514.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The only specimen was taken in an area of lowland heath forest dominated by Gymnostoma on a white, sandy soil.

Genitalia: