Abstract
The revision of the Lygephila dorsigera species-group led to the recognition of a number of distinct species which may occur partly sympatrically with each other in the continental SE Asia and the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The study of an old Lygephila material from the island of Java and from Flores harboured in the RMNH and recently collected material from Sulawesi preserved in NMPC revealed the presence of an unknown species of the dorsigera group which appears as new for science. This species is described below under the name Lygephila javanica sp. n., the diagnostic comparison is made with Lygephila dorsigera (Walker, 1865). This is the first record of the genus from the Greater Sunda Islands, no records of a Lygephila species is known from Sumatra and Borneo.
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