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Trichaetoides divisura Walker comb. n.

Syntomis divisura Walker, 1862, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.), 6: 90.

Trichaeta divisura Walker; Seitz, 1912-1913: 67.

Diagnosis

This species has only four major transparent areas on the forewing, that in the space posterior to CuA2 being adjacent to the one in the cell, intermediate, in position to the two of separabilis and larger than either. In the male genitalia the valves are short, conical, and the aedeagus vesica has a distinctive slender lateral lobe with an apical cornutus. In the female genitalia the ductus bursae is centrally convolute and basally sclerotised in a flask-like shape.

Geographical range

Borneo, Sumatra.

Habitat preference

No material has been taken in recent surveys. Material in the BMNH is from S.E. Borneo where lowland habitats predominate.

Genitalia:

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Species (6)


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