Smerinthulus terranea Butler

Mimas terranea Butler, 1876, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1876: 310.

Smerinthulus brooksi Clark, 1930, Proc. New Engl. zool. Club., 12; 27, syn. n.

Cypa pallens duponti Roepke, Dupont & Roepke, 1941: 25, syn. n.

Cypa pallens brooksi Clark; Diehl, 1980: 28

Diagnosis

See Cypa decolorWalker. Some specimens have greyish forewings, rather than greenish brown ones (e.g. as illustrated by Diehl (1980)); these may be faded.

Taxonomic Notes

The male genitalia of brooksi illustrated by Jordan (1931:242) are very similar to those of terranea from Borneo: the setose process on the valve is slightly larger and the spines on the aedeagus apex are less developed than in Bornean specimens.

Nevertheless the taxa are undoubtedly conspecific.

Diehl (1980) subordinated duponti to brooksi.

Geographical range

Sundaland.

Habitat preference

This is probably a rare lowland species but the specimen taken on the Mulu survey was from lower montane forest on limestone.

Genitalia: