Etanna viridifascia Holloway sp. n.

♂♂, ♀♀ (Peninsular Malaysia) 8-9mm.

The forewing facies is somewhat atypical of Etanna, with an irregular green postmedial and a similar antemedial dividing the wing into grey basal, medial and marginal thirds; the green fasciae are edged finely with black.

However, the male genitalia are consistent with placement in Etanna, though the eighth abdominal segment is deep, each sclerite frame-like and containing a prominent pair of hair-pencils.

The uncus and tegumen are complex, with fine bands of thickening; indeed the former may be vestigial.

The valves are reduced to very narrow strips, and the scaled process is similarly long and slender.

The large saccus and tegumen/vinculum junction are typical of Etanna also.

The aedeagus vesica has a single cornutus, only seen elsewhere in the genus in vailima.

Holotype ♂

BRUNEI: 150 ft, Rampayoh R., LP291B, GR951801, lowland dipterocarp forest, 11-15.iv.1988 (G.S. Robinson), BM noctuid slide 16846.

Paratype ♂

SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D.Holloway et al.), Site 16, March, Long Pala (Base), 70m. 324450, alluv./second. for.

Geographical range

Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference

Both specimens are from lowland forest.

Biology

The Javan material was reared from larvae defoliating durian (Durio zibethinus; Bombacaceae).

Genitalia: