Ophthalmitis cordularioides Holloway sp. n.

♂♂ 27-30mm, ♀ 33m. In facies this species resembles closely O. cordularia Swinhoe (Himalaya), like O. rufilauta but with black rather than brown markings. The markings are somewhat heavier than in cordularia. The latter has distal saccular and subcostal spurs to the valve as in rufilauta but cordularioides lacks these, having an irregularly spinose, shallow flange on the sacculus. The uncus is more elongate, with disinctive lateral triangular flaps at the apex in addition to the more basal horns.

Holotype ♂

SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) Site 5,January, Camp 4, G. Mulu, 1780m, 451463 [upper montane forest]. BM geometrid slide 13142.

Paratypes

• 1 ♀ SARAWAK: Gunung Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) Site 16, March, Long Pala (Base), 70m, 324450, alluvial/secondary forest, MV on batu
• 1 ♂ E. SABAH, Brumas, 500ft, 26.4.1973 (K.M. Guichard)
• 2 ♂♂ NORD BORNEO, Mont Kina Balu, 5.8.1903 (*John Waterstradt).

Geographical range

Borneo, Sumatra.

Habitat preference

Specimens have been taken both in the lowlands and in the upper montane zone.

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