Diomea garroodi Holloway sp. n.
Diagnosis
♂♂, ♀ 14mm. This species resembles tricuspida very closely in both wing shape, facies and male genitalia, and was originally marked down merely as a variant of that species, lacking the prominent creamy white, bilobed patch across the apical zone of the forewing. The forewings in both are relatively deep and the hindwings of a greater relative area than in other Bornean species. However, the submarginals are broader and more continuous on both fore- and hindwings and less strongly angled on the former, particularly at the tornus.
Females (one from Bali) have a small cream-coloured bar on the forewing costa just distad from the postmedial.
Holotype ♂
Dutch West BORNEO [Kalimantan]: 85 miles above Pontianak (Simons et Meligan (Sanggan)), ex Janson, April, 1909.
Paratypes
- 1 ♂ SARAWAK: Santubong Mt., 100m, 6.ix.1981: (Oxford Far East Exp.) BM noctuid slide 18168
- 1 ♀ (slide 18553) Tenom, Brit. N. BORNEO (E. Wahr).
Geographical range
Borneo, Bali.
Habitat preference
This is a lowland species, probably from forested localities.
Genitalia:
