Image of Plagiograpta lutzi Holloway ♀ (holotype)
♀ (holotype)

Plagiograpta lutzi Holloway sp. n.

♀ 8mm.

The forewings are a more uniform grey as in P. schilleri Kobes, but darker with paler markings even more reduced and indistinct: an incomplete ring round a darker spot at the tornus; a faint double antemedial, disjunct between the costa and dorsum.

There is also an obscurely darker reniform stigma.

Holotype ♀

BRUNEI: U. Temburong, Gn. Pagon, 1700m. iv.1981 (I. Gauld).

Geographical range

Borneo, Sumatra (illustrated but not described by Kobes, 1997: plate VIII: 264).

Habitat preference

The only specimen is from upper montane forest at 1700m.

Related species:

Species (3)


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