Image of Pseudidiochlora temburong Holloway ♂ (holotype)
♂ (holotype)

Pseudidiochlora temburong Holloway sp. n.

Diagnosis

♂ 14mm.

See the generic description.

There is a second species in Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, slightly larger with a more broken translucent area on the forewing.

In the valves of the male genitalia of this second species the costal spine is relatively shorter, the more distal lobe of the sacculus process narrower, apically rounded rather than with a distally directed acute spine.

Holotype ♂

BRUNEI: Ulu Temburong, rainforest, 30.6.1979. (Lt. Col. M.G. Allen) BM geometrid slide 16839.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The holotype is from hill dipterocarp forest.

Genitalia:


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