Image of Europlema bilobuncus Holloway ♂

Europlema bilobuncus Holloway sp. n.

♂♀ 9mm.

The facies is somewhat as in desistaria, with a rusty brown area to the hindwing and a white patch interior to the forewing submarginal, albeit smaller, that recurs below weakly.

The submarginal lunules are arcuate rather than irregular.

The pale discal mark is strong, transversely linear within a generally dark brownish zone.

The male genitalia have the uncus distally somewhat bibbed, with further weak lobes just distal to the almost filamentous arms of the gnathus: setae are restricted to these distal and basal lobes.

The valves are rather long, narrow, roundedly triangular, the ventral processes short, evenly curved.

The female has a single signum set basally, transversely bibbed.

The ductus is relatively long, and there is no junction at the forewing point of the ductus seminalis.

Holotype ♂

SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway etal.) Site 21, March, W. Melinau Gorge, 150m. 423576, alluvial /kerangas bank, BM uraniid slide 283.

Paratype ♀

BRUNEI: 1618m, Bukit Retak, montane forest; 14.9.1979 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen), BM uraniid slide 423.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The specimens are from a lowland heath and alluvial forest boundary and from montane forest.

Genitalia:

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Species (6)


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