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Pantydia metaspila
Walker
Toxocampa metaspila
Walker,
1857,
List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.,
13: 1032.
Ophiusa
pallidilinea
Walker,
1858,
List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.,
15: 1832.
Toxocampa moolla
Swinhoe,
1885,
Proc. zool.
Soc. Lond., 1885:
459.
Pantydia metaspila
Walker;
Holloway, 1976: 34.
Diagnosis.
The forewing facies is somewhat variable but always has a straight, dark-edged,
pale, transverse fascia submarginally and usually a black mark subdorsally at
one quarter; the reniform is usually slightly paler than its surroundings. The
zone of the forewing basal to the pale fascia often has diffusely darker medial
and antemedial bands but these are always weak. The hindwing has a pale basal
two thirds and a darker grey distal third, but with a darker medial fascia just
within the paler part.
Geographical range.
Sri
Lanka, Maldives, China, Taiwan, Sundaland, Philippines, Sulawesi, Tenimber, New
Guinea, Queensland, Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia, W.
Carolines (Yap).
Habitat
preference. The
species appear to be rare in Borneo, represented by single specimens from Bidi
in the lowlands of Sarawak and from Kundasan, an area of cultivation at 1050m on
the southern slopes of G. Kinabalu. Chey (1994) recorded a specimen in a
Gmelina
(Verbenaceae)
plantation in the lowlands of Sabah.
Biology.
Robinson (1975) described the larva in Fiji as pale russet brown, with faint
white mottling laterally.
The host plant was
Vigna
(Leguminosae, also
noted by Miyata (1983) and Robinson
et
al. (2001)).
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