Symmimetis kolopis Holloway sp. n.
Symmimetis cristata Warren sensu Holloway, 1976: 70.
♂♀ 10-11mm. This species resembles muscosa in facies but is a paler, more rufous brown, with the paler ground yellowish rather than creamy white. There is a diffuse yellowish patch between the postmedial angle or flexure and the margin on both wings. There is a more continuous but irregular and angled fine white line medially on the forewing. The male genitalia have the saccus shorter than either of the above species, and the valves are more strongly tapered. The aedeagus vesica has more numerous spines distally and four moderate ones basally. The bursa of the female is more symmetrical, wider over the sclerotised basal part and more extensively spined.
Holotype ♀
SABAH: Mt Kinabalu, ‘Power Station’, 1930m. vii-ix.1965, Cambridge Expedition to Mt Kinabalu 1965 (H.J. Banks, H.S. Barlow & J.D. Holloway) BM geometrid slide 18907.
Paratypes
- 1 ♂ (slide 18934) 10 ♀♀ (slide 9099) as holotype
- 1 ♀ SABAH: Mt Kinabalu, Kamborangoh, 2110m, general data as holotype.
Geographical range
Borneo.
Habitat preference
All material is from upper montane forest on G. Kinabalu.
Genitalia:
