Eugoa obliquipuncta Holloway sp. n.
♂♂, ♀♀ 8-9mm. The facies is similar to that of basipuncta, with the dark antemedials and postmedials both diffusing away paler distally from a sharp edge on their basal side, but both are distinctly oblique. The hindwings are grey. The male antennae are bipectinate rather than serrate or ciliate. The male genitalia have the tegumen shouldered, the uncus angled, and there is a hirsute process from the valve sacculus that is larger than the part of the valve distal to its point of origin. The aedeagus has a subapical cluster of small spines. The female genitalia are similar to those of basipuncta, but the ostium is flanked by a pair of thumb-like processes.
Holotype ♂
BRUNEI: 30-60m., Labi, lowland forest and secondary veg., 15.12.1979 (R. Fairclough), BM arctiid slide 4796.
Paratypes:
- 1 ♂ (slide 4797) BRUNEI: 300m., Ulu Temburong, rainforest, 15 Oct. 78 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen)
- 1 ♂ BRUNEI: Telisai, Gymno[stoma] scrub, 10m, iv.81 (I.Gauld)
- 1 ♂ (slide 2766) SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.), Site 8, February, Camp 1, Mulu, 150m, 385470, mixed dipt. for.
- 1 ♂ SARAWAK as previous but Site 17, March, Nr. Long Melinau, 50m, 313441, low secondary for. on river bank
- 1 ♂ SABAH: Ulu Dusun, 30m., W. of Sandakan, 28-31.i.1976 (E.W. Classey), lowland dipterocarp forest
- 1 ♀ (slide 5075) MALAYSIA: Sabah, Danum Valley, 170m, 4°58’N, 117°48’E (S.J. Willott), 1° understorey W5, West Trail, DVFC, 3.viii.94
- 1 ♀ BORNEO: Sabah, Danum Valley, 5°01’N, 117°47’E, 10.ix.1987, 100m (A.H. Kirk-Spriggs), roadside, secondary forest.
Geographical Range
Borneo.
Habitat Preference
Though not common, the species has been taken from a variety of lowland forest types, including heath forest and secondary forest.
Genitalia:
