Acropentias sp.2; PED 11
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Taxonomy
Acropentias sp. 2. An unnamed specimen in the Schulze Coll. from Sabah (PHS). Det. by W. Speidel as near Acropentias aureus (Butler 1878: 402). It may be a ssp. of A. aureus.
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Description
Wing length : 8mm. The ground colour is snow white with fulvous on the FW subcostal and submarginal areas and with a large brown discal spot. The HW has a small diffuse fulvous area near to the tornus. The FW has five spots on the costa near the apex these spots continue as brown dashed marginal lines on both wings. The FW has an incomplete fulvous antemedian line and a distinct fulvous rounded post median line. The HW has a distinct curving postmedian fascia. Although this morphotype is similar to Acropentias sp. 1 in the large furry maxillary palpi and the prominent recurved labial palpi, it differs from it and A. aureus in the shape of the fawn post median fascia on the FW. See illustrations LI fig 4, in Butler, A.G. (1979) and Wang & Spiedel (2000): 95. Schulze (2000) Taxon #977.
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Distribution & Habitat
W. Malaysia, Singapore, Sabah, Sarawak, Indonesia (Java). Lowland secondary forest; <520m.
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Life History & Pest Status
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Similar spp.
Acropentias aureu
Acropentias sp. 1.
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Unrelated Look-alikes
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References
Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.
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Genitalia
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DNA Barcode
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3D Imaging
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Spare
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KEY TO TABS
(1) Taxonomy, (2) Description, (3) Distribution & Habitat, (4) Life History & Pest Status, (5) Similar spp., (6) Unrelated Look-alikes, (7) References, (8) Genitalia, (9) DNA Barcode, (10) 3D Imaging, (11) Spare