Negeta montanata Holloway sp. n.
♀♀ 12-14mm.
This species is larger than contrariata but has a similar forewing colour and pattern except the subapical costal white triangle is larger and deeper, more as in aureata. In the genitalia the sterigma is more elongate, tubular, less heart-shaped.
Holotype ♀
SABAH: Mt. Kinabalu, Park H.Q., 1620m, vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt. Kinabalu 1965 (H.J. Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway), BM noctuid slide 17344.
Paratypes
- 1♀ as holotype but Kiau Gap, 1760m; 1E as holotype but Power Station, 1930m.
Geographical range
Borneo.
Habitat preference
The species is rare and only known from G. Kinabalu between 1620m and 1930m.
Genitalia:
