Pseudoteratura ( Pseudoteratura ) mima Gorochov, 2014

Pseudoteratura ( Pseudoteratura) mima Gorochov, 2014 View in CoL

( Figs 10C, 10G, 10K View FIGURE 10 , 13 View FIGURE 13 , 14 View FIGURE 14 )

Pseudoteratura ( Pseudoteratura) mima Gorochov, 2014: 9 View in CoL .

New material examined. EAST MALAYSIA; Sabah State • 1♂; Maliau Basin, along trail from Agathis–Nepenthes camps at 1 km; N4.70144 E116.90346, 580.4± 5.7 m.a.s.l.; 14 November 2024, 18h11; on foliage near ground; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.74 ( ZRC) • 1♂; Maliau Basin, along EE Trail; N4.73678 E116.97410, 247.7± 7.1 m.a.s.l.; 17 November 2024, 17h51; under foliage of tree; coll. M.K. Tan; SBH.24.121 ( ZRC) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Although we did not encounter females, we postulate that our male specimens belong to Pseudoteratura ( Pseudoteratura) mima Gorochov, 2014 described from Tawau (not too far away) by the exposed part of the hindwings with two black spots spaced apart ( Fig. 10K View FIGURE 10 ). These two spots on the hindwings are invariable and nearly identical to the image of the female holotype ( Gorochov, 2014). The spots on the tegmina are slightly different between the two male specimens as well as between our specimens and the female holotype. Likewise, the patterns of the dorsum of its head and pronotum show sexual dimorphism but are relatively stable between the males. Our specimens exhibit at the posterior end of the pronotum a larger (more extensive) black spot than the female holotype, but with an unbroken orange longitudinal band not different from the female holotype.

New diagnosis. The male is characterised by the unique shape of the cercus, particularly the lobes at the apical part, and the shapes of the male cercus ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 ).

Male description. Habitus as shown in Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 . Tenth abdominal tergite with posterior margin at median part emarginated, margin along emargination with setae ( Figs 14A–C View FIGURE 14 ). Epiproct small, triangle and with apex truncated ( Figs 14A–C View FIGURE 14 ). Cercus cylindrical with apical third bent internally and complex ( Figs 14A–C View FIGURE 14 ). Apical part forked into dorsal ( dl) and ventral ( vl) processes; dorsal process pointing internally, swollen, apical part rounded and more swollen than basal part, apex obtuse; ventral process not as elongated as dorsal process, more flattened and narrower, pointing ventrad and tapering into subacute apex, at base anterior margin with broadly rounded lobule ( bll) ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 ). Subgenital plate ( sgp) elongate trapezoidal, longer than broad; apical margin truncated; with styli long and slender. Genitalia ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 ) with dorsal process ( dp) more membranous; dorsal process at base broadly rounded, narrowing into short shaft near basal third before expanding rectangular and bulbous apex; ventral part ( vp) more sclerotized, divided into two lamellar lateral lobes pointing posteriorly; ventral part in ventral view with sclerotized transverse bridge, somewhat divided at middle; each lateral lobe having apex sclerotized (more sclerotized along external margin) and obtuse, and before apex with dorsal lobule; dorsal lobule broadly rounded and pointing dorso-posteriorly.

Distribution. Borneo ( Sabah: Tawau Hills, Maliau Basin [new locality record]).

Type locality. EAST MALAYSIA: Sabah State: Tawau Hills National Park .