Kunugia quadrilineata Holloway sp. n.

Diagnosis

♂♂ 27-31mm.

The wings are a rich biscuit buff to medium brown.

The forewings have four diagnostic, parallel, straight, diffusely darker fasciae within the basal three fifths.

There is a submarginal row of dark flecks and a diffuse pale greyish patch at the tornus.

The male genitalia have no spur to the aedeagus and a small, unspined vesica.

The valves are simply conical, the apex flexed at an angle.

The cubile arms are slender, unspined, except for a subbasal pair of spurs.

Holotype ♂

BRUNEI: 30-60m, Labi, lowland forest, 12.6.1982 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen).

Paratype

1 ♂ BRUNEI: 75m, Labi Road, February 1982 (Lt*. Col. M.G. Allen)*; 2 ♂♂ SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) Site 15 February, Camp 2.5, Mulu, 1000m, 413461, lower montane f., BM lasiocampid slide 937.

Geographical range

Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra; a similar but distinct species occurs in Sulawesi, as yet undescribed.

Habitat preference

The listed specimens have been taken in lowland or lower montane forest.

In Peninsular Malaysia a long series of males has been taken at 1000m on Bukit Kutu.

Taxonomic Note

Relatives of K. quadrilineata have been described from the Philippines by Zolotuhin et al. (1997): K. pippae Zolotuhin, Treadaway & Witt from Mindanao; K. hollowayi Zolotuhin, Treadaway & Witt from Negros. They recorded quadrilineata from Palawan. The Sulawesi relative mentioned in the Part 3 account was described as K. varuna Zolotuhin & Holloway (2006); K. grjukovae Zolotuhin represents the group in Thailand; K. labahnigra Zolotuhin has been described from Laos (Zolotuhin & Ihle, 2008). Four further species from Bhutan and the S.E. Asian peninsula are currently under description (V.V. Zolotuhin, pers. comm.).

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