Image of Idiochlora subexpressa Walker  ♂ (holotype)
♂ (holotype)

Idiochlora subexpressa Walker 

Thalera subexpressa Walker, 1861, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln. Br Mus., 22: 599.

Diagnosis and taxonomic notes

This species is represented by a male in the Natural History Museum (slide 17397) and the holotype male in the University Museum, Oxford, both collected by A.R.Wallace.

The postmedials are faintly darker, brownish, rather straight, edged narrowly paler distad.

The male genitalia have a strong, acute angle to the centre of the valve costa, and a shallow, slightly downturned saccular process.

Geographical range

Borneo, ?Peninsular Malaysia (Penang).

Habitat preference

This is probably a lowland species.

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (8)


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