Image of Diduga ciliata Holloway ♂ (holotype)
♂ (holotype)

Diduga ciliata Holloway sp. n.

♂ 5mm. The size and forewing facies are very similar to that of pectinifer, but the antennae are ciliate. The genitalia are markedly different, having valves of the short, many-processed, asymmetric type: the right costal process is hammer-headed, the saccular one digitate, shallowly angled; the left costal process is curved, tongue-like, and the saccular process is curved, slender. The aedeagus is sharply flexed.

Holotype ♂

Pulo Laut, BORNEO, (Doherty), June [18]91, BM arctiid slide 5097.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The species is from the same locality as pectinifer.

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (5)


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