Ozola turlini Herbulot

Ozola turlini Herbulot, 1985, Nouv. Revue Ent. (N.S.) 3: 251.

Ozola basisparsata Walker sensu Scoble & Sommerer, 1988: 68, partim

Diagnosis

This and Ozola hollowayi Scoble & Sommerer are of a similar straw colour but turlini is distinguished by the presence of a fine linear postmedial on both wings.

The subapical trio of submarginal spots on the forewing are of equal size, distinct in turlini, but run into each other in hollowayi, the most posterior being larger.

In the male genitalia the aedeagus and vinculum with saccus are very much longer in hollowayi, and in the female the ductus bursae is similarly diagnostically longer.

Taxonomic Notes

• Though Scoble & Sommerer (1988) illustrated the holotype male genitalia of basisparsata, the other material they referred to under this name was turlini.
• Ozola turlini has been reared from a larva on Cyrtandromoeamegaphylla (Scrophulariaceae) in Peninsular Malaysia (H.S. Barlow, pers. comm.).It is show below.

Geographical range

Sundaland, Sulawesi.

Habitat preference

Bornean material is scarce and from lowland localities.

The species has not been taken in recent surveys in natural forest areas but was frequent in the secondary forest and plantation associations sampled in the lowlands of Sabah by Chey (1994), though not specifically those of Gmelina arborea (Verbenaceae: see O. minor Moore).

Genitalia:

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