Pelagodes semengok Holloway sp. n.

Image of [object Object] Holloway ♂

Diagnosis

♂ 16mm.

The facies is indistinguishable from that of Pelagodes tridens Holloway.

The male abdomen has the following diagnostic features: the eighth segment processes are terminally bifid, with a third spine interiorly just beyond the centre of each; the valve costal spine is strongly curved, slender, acute, rather erect, arising at about two thirds along the costal margin.

Holotype ♂

SARAWAK: Kuching, Semengok, 3-9.ii. 1976 (E. W. Classey) BM geometrid slide 8683.

Geographical range

Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia (FRIM colln), Sumatra.

Habitat preference

The type locality is in lowland rain forest.

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Species (7)


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