Scopula voluptaria Prout
Scopula voluptaria Prout, 1938, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 12: 201.
Scopula voluptaria Prout; Holloway, 1976: 64.
Diagnosis
The largest Bornean species, voluptaria has a whitish ground colour, strong marginal black dots, and diagnostic blackening within the postmedial and submarginal complex of fasciae at the dorsum, and distal from the discal spot. The fasciae are otherwise rather faint.
Taxonomic Notes
This species belongs to a group that includes the Himalayan S. extimaria Walker and S. ochricrinita Prout, and S
pallidiceps* Warren from Lombok. These taxa share similarities of facies and of the male abdomen: small coremata laterally on segment 5; a large straight ceratum on the right of sternite 8, with that on the left vestigial; short, broad socii that bear long setae. In voluptaria the valve processes are broader, blunt rather than acute.
Geographical Range
Sumatra, Borneo.
Habitat Preference
Only recorded from G. Kinabalu, the species is infrequent at 1620m-1760m.
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