Metallolophia subradiata (Warren)

Han, Galsworthy, A. & Xue, 2005, A revision of the genus Metallolophia Warren (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Geometrinae), Journal of Natural History 39 (2), pp. 165-195 : 175-176

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930310001657865
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scientific name	Metallolophia subradiata (Warren)
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Metallolophia subradiata (Warren) View in CoL

( Figures 14, 15 View Figures 2–21 , 47, 58, 72)

Terpna subradiata Warren, 1897: 388 View in CoL . Holotype ♀, [Peninsular Malaysia]: Penang (BMNH). Metallolophia subradiata: Prout, 1912a: 38 View in CoL ; Prout, 1932: 54; Holloway, 1996: 203, Figures 146, pl. 5: 18.

Description

Length of fore wing: „ 23 mm; ♀ 25 mm. Frons and terminal half of palpus greyish brown; third segment of female palpus moderately elongate. Antenna very weakly lamellate or serrate in male, simple in female. Abdominal crests very weak, without metallic glossy sheen. Wings rather broad, inner margin of hind wing in both sexes slightly elongate, outer margin weakly crenulate. Fore wing pale brown mixed with dense dark purplish streaks and irregular greenish irroration; a large pale area below costa from antemedian to postmedian line; discal spot reniform, with centre pale greenish and ring black; antemedian line zigzag; postmedian line dentate. Hind wing darker than fore wing, tinged with red brown near base and becoming greyish brown or greenish towards outer margin; discal spot white-centred, ring inconspicuous. Underside pale, the yellow area from base extending to middle of wing, sometimes even to the dark subterminal band on the hind wing; discal spot and small streak proximally to it on fore wing underside dark purple; a large but pale streak on the fold; hind wing underside with discal spot absent in male and very weak in female.

Male genitalia ( Figure 58 View Figures 57–60 ). Socii thick and short. Valva broad at proximal half, abruptly narrowing beyond the middle point; terminal part of central basal lobe very broad, semicircular, much more weakly sclerotized. Saccular process stick-like, thin and long, only very slightly expanded at the tip.

Female genitalia ( Figure 72 View Figures 69–74 ). Ductus bursae short and narrow, gradually merging with corpus bursae, total length of both about 1.8 times that of apophyses posteriores.

Specimens examined

Malaysia: HOLOTYPE: 1♀, Penang 1896, coll. Curtis ( BMNH). 1 „, Sarawak, Gunong Mulu National Park , R.G.S. Exped. 1977–78 (J. D. Holloway et al.), Site 25, 900 m, April 1978, Sarawak, grid reference 427550 ( BMNH). Indonesia: 11 „„, Sumatra, 150–180 m, November 1967 –1973, coll. E. Diehl ( ZSM); 1 „, northern Sumatra, Gunung Malayu vic., Aek Tarum, 150 m, 20 November 1982, coll. Dr Diehl, in coll. Sommerer ( ZSM); 1 „, northern Sumatra (Simalungun), ‘Holzweg 2’, 1050 m, 28 km SW Siantar, 98 ° 599E, 2 ° 469N, 1 June 1986, coll. Dr E. W. Diehl, in coll. Sommerer ( ZSM); 1♀, northern Sumatra, 10 km N of Prapat Ainoli Forest, 1400 m, 14 July 1979, [coll.] B. Turlin ( ZSM).

Distribution

Malaysia: peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak; Indonesia: Sumatra, Borneo and Sulawesi.