Image of Lophoptera gadirthoides Holloway ♂ — ♂

Lophoptera gadirthoides Holloway sp. n.

Diagnosis

♂♂ 20-21mm.

This species differs from the previous three in the medium-pale brown ground colour to the forewing; there is a distinctive, dark brown bottle-shaped mark, neck directed basad, enclosing the reniform; the reniform is pale brown with a slender black lunule centrally; the bottle mark has a slightly less dark shade distad which continues to the margin; the posterior element of the apical mark (no paler than the ground) resembles that of polygrapha in not being bounded basad; the postmedial zig-zags in a pronounced manner over its posterior third, ending in two thin dark lines running basad parallel to the dorsum.

The male genitalia are somewhat as in chalybea, having a slight subapical step to the valve costa; the basal lobe is much more rounded and is completely fused to the valve at its base.

Holotype ♂

BRUNEI: 30-60m, Labi, lowland forest and secondary veg., 12.1.1980 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen) BM noctuid slide 11376.

Paratype

1 ♂ BRUNEI: 60m, Ulu Belait, lowland forest, 21.2.1981 (Allen); 1 ♂ SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park (Holloway) Site 8, Mulu Camp 1, 150m, 385470, mixed dipt. for.