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Ectropis brooksi Holloway

Ectropis brooksi Holloway, 1976: 79.

Diagnosis

The ground colour of the wings is creamy white, the rather irregular fasciation rich brown. The discal spots are enlarged, extended by a shaded zone in the centre of the wings between the postmedial and submarginal fasciae. The aedeagus vesica has a cornutus, blunt-ended, and constricted subapically.

Geographical Range

Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia.

Habitat Preference

This is the rarest of the four Bornean species but found in forested localities over a wide range of altitude: in hill dipterocarp forest between 150m and 300m on G. Mulu and in the Ulu Temburong of Brunei; at 900m in lower montane forest of Gunung Api; at 1465m in montane forest on Bukit Retak; at 1620m on G. Kinabalu.

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Species (3)


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