Metaemene obscurogrisea Holloway sp. n.

Image of [object Object] Holloway ♂ (holotype)
♂ (holotype)

♂ 11mm. The wings are pale grey, the hindwings darker than the forewings above but uniform with them below. On all wings on both sides the apical part of the forewing and costal border of the hindwing are paler. The wings are worn, but there is a central dark dot to the forewing, and the distal margins of all wings show vestiges of darker maculation. The genitalia have a single, broad, hooked process on each side of the tegumen rather than the two of the atrigutta complex, and the valves have the saccular process also hooked apically on top of a square basal part. The inner saccular margin has a digitate process subbasally. The aedeagus vesica is large and with only small sclerites evident.

Holotype ♂

BRUNEI: 1618, Bukit Retak, montane forest, 18.5.79, (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen),  BM noctuid slide 20154.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The only specimen is from montane forest near a summit.

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (12)


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