Scoparia? sp. 5

Taxonomy

Scoparia sp. 5. A single specimen from Sabah (Mount Kinabalu N.P.) in the Schulze Coll. accessions.

Note Eudonia Billberg 1820: 93 & Scoparia Haworth, [1811]: 498 have few distinctive genitalic and (other) features to separate them (Svensson 1992). Here we deal with unnamed specimens of both genera under Scoparia as a ‘lumping’ for convenience to compare very similar spp.

Description

FW with brownish black speckling on a white background with two small black ante-median spots. There is a pale post-median line angled on the subcosta and darker blotches at the distal end of the FW cell and around the start of the post-medial line. The HW is a pale grey darker toward the termen..

Scoparia sp. 6. is very similar but the PML is less distinct.

References

• Haworth, A.W. ([1811] 1803-1828) Lepidoptera Britannica, sistens digestimen novam lepidopterorum quae in Magna Britannica reperiunter - adjunguntur dissertationes variae ad historiam naturalam spectantes [Lepid. Britannica] 3: 377-512.
• Billberg, G.J. (1820) Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. [Enumeratio insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg. [Holmiae]. Typis Gadelianis]: 139 pp.
• Svensson, I. (1992) Splitter or lumper or both, Nota Lepid. 15, Suppl. 3: 101-107.
• 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.