Image of Evonima kamboranga Holloway ♂

Evonima kamboranga Holloway sp. n.

♂ 10mm.

The forewings have a pronounced obtuse angle at the centre of the dorsal margin, not seen to such an extent in other species (there is a weak angle in aperta and plagiola). The colour is rufous brown but paler and more biscuit-brown in the distal half of the wing, the division being transverse and bisecting the dorsal angl.

The brown is darkest in a broad costal band in the basal half and also diffusely darker at the dorsal angle.

Holotype ♂

SABAH: Mt. Kinabalu, Kamborangoh, 2110m. vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt. Kinabalu 1965 (H.J. Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway), BM noctuid slide 17635.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The only specimen is from the upper montane zone.

Genitalia:

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Species (3)


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