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Idaea sp. A. Holloway

These two males (7mm) resemble smaller, greyer more strongly marked versions of sakuraii. However, the genitalia are characterised by an unusual flanged and irregular costal margin to the valve. The setae at the apex of the gnathus are robust. The aedeagus has no cornuti: the two small spines displaced to the base of the right valve in the photograph may be associated with the anellus, homologous with those of sakuraii. There is a well-developed pouch on the second abdominal sternite. One is from Semengok, a lowland locality near Kuching, and the other is from wet heath forest (kerangas) near the Melinau Gorge, taken during the Mulu survey.

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