Paectes osseotrigona Holloway sp. n.

Diagnosis

♂♀ 15-16mm.

The species is similar to leucotrigona except the pale zone of the forewing is less rufous, more bone colour, interrupted by faint brown bars on the costa and diffusing away into grey towards the dorsum medially; the posterior margin to the pale area approaches the dorsum at a less acute angle basally; the subapical area just outside the postmedial pale loop is black as in leucotrigona but the black is not broken by an oblique pale line.

The patagia are entirely bone colour as on the forewing; they are mostly dark grey in leucotrigona

Holotype ♂

SARAWAK: Gunong Mulu Nat. Park, R.G.S. Exped. 1977-8 (J.D. Holloway et al.) BM 1978-206, Site 25, April, G. Api, 900m, 427550, lower montane forest, MV and Act., BM noctuid slide 11117.

Paratype

1 ♀ BRUNEI, 15m, Telisai, sandy heath forest & Gymnostoma, 3.2.1979 (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen) BM noctuid slide 11126; 1 ♂ Temburong, L.P. 298, 300m, BRUNEI, 18.ii.1982 (T. W. Harman).

Geographical range

Borneo, Sumatra; a specimen from Java (Djoenggo Ardjoeno, 4500ft) in the BMNH may be this species.

Habitat preference

The three specimens come from lower montane, kerangas and hill dipterocarp forests.

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