Schistophleps pyrifulvia Holloway sp. n.
♂ 8mm. The facies is as in microfulvia, but again the genitalia are distinctive. The uncus (possibly the distal part of the tegumen) is massive, pyriform, distal to a constriction that is flanked by a pair of acute, tongue-like processes; the distal end of the ‘pear’ bears a slight nipple. The valves are divided apically into a dorsal, blade-like process and a ventral circular one, the two together vaguely resembling a tin-opener. The aedeagus is long, slender, evenly curved apart from a reflexed basal portion.
Holotype ♂
SABAH: Poring, 1800ft, E. of Mt. Kinabalu, 20-23.i.1976 (E. W. Classey), BM arctiid slide 5177.
Geographical range
Borneo.
Habitat preference
The single specimen is from lowland forest where some disturbance is present.
Genitalia:
