Image of Scardamia iographa Prout ♂

Scardamia iographa Prout

Scardamia iographa Prout, 1932, J. fed. Malay States Mus., 17: 80.

Scardamia iographa Prout; Holloway, 1976: 84.

Diagnosis

No other Bornean geometrid shares the generic facies features.

Taxonomic Notes

In genitalia and facies the species resembles S.seminigra Prout (India) and S. bractearia Walker (Sri Lanka), and may be conspecific. The type species differs in having an antemedial fascia to the hindwing and cornuti in the aedeagus vesica.

Geographical Range

Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia.

Habitat Preference

The species is rare in forested localities, taken over an altitude range of 300m to almost 2000m.

Genitalia:


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