Image of Peratophyga spilodesma Prout ♂

Peratophyga spilodesma Prout

Peratophyga spilodesma Prout, 1924, Novit. zool., 39: 131.

Peratophyga spilodesma Prout; Holloway, 1976: 84.

Diagnosis

The dark parts of the wings are pinkish grey rather than reddish, otherwise the markings are as in the next species. A fovea typical of the genus is present in the male, and the genitalia have the valve apex rounded and two bulbous cornuti and a sclerotised disc in the aedeagus vesica. In the female the basal part of the bursa is diagnostically spined, and the signum is smaller than in the other two related species.

Geographical Range

Borneo, Sumatra.

Habitat Preference

The species is infrequent and has been taken from the lowlands to 1620m (G Kinabalu, Bukit Retak).

Genitalia:

Related species:

Species (9)


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