Lebeda pruetti Holloway sp. n.

Diagnosis

♂35mm, ♀53mm . The species is larger than brauni, the forewings a dark greyish brown with the four fasciae pale. Both antemedial and postmedial pairs are flanked by a thin zone of more ochreous ground colour (cf. a dark brown in brauni). In the male genitalia the long central process of the valve is apically flexed, the vinculum deeper, the cubile arms broader, their margins more coarsely spined than in brauni.

Holotype ♂NORTH BORNEO: Sabah, Tawau distr., 500-700 ft., primary rainforest, 17.x-5.xi.1973 (C.J.H. Pruett) BM 1974-277, BM lasiocampid slide 992.

Paratype

1 ♀ as holotype.

Geographical Range

Borneo.

Habitat Preference

The two specimens were taken at about 200m in rainforest.

Taxonomic Note

There is a distinct subspecies of Lebeda pruetti on Samar in the Philippines, L. pruetti bondora Zolotuhin, Treadaway & Witt (1998: 156).

Genitalia: