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Pseudocollix Warren
Type species: hyperythra Hampson.
Inoue et al. (1982) treated this genus as distinct from Horisme
(type species tersata Denis & Schiffermüller, Europe): the
Bornean species listed under Horisme by Holloway (1976) are to be found
either in this genus, in Collix Guenée or in Papuarisme
Gen.
n.
The fasciation on the light brown wings is similar to that of Horisme,
but genitalic features indicate the two are not closely related. Both have,
in the male, a reduced uncus and prominent labides as in the Eupitheciini, but
the saccus is longer, the valve more deeply divided into costal and saccular
processes (the latter bilaterally asymmetric) in Pseudocollix.
The male abdomen indicates a relationship with Collix, with
reduction of the sclerites of the last two segments, paired coremata between
them and between segment 8 and the genitalia, and a central apodeme on segment
6. However, the pronounced, curved labides and bilaterally asymmetric divided
valves of the male and funnel-like ductus of the female are
diagnostic.
In the bursa copulatrix Horisme has the distal bulb coarsely
scobinate and there are one or more bands of spines in the basal neck. In Pseudocollix
the ductus broadens out, funnel-like to an ostium as wide as the eighth
segment, narrowing distally to a short, convolute, strongly sclerotised zone at
the base of the bursa. The distal part is ovate, with a narrow longitudinal band
of spines similar to that seen in some Collix Guenée species.
Probably many of the taxa currently assigned to Horisme in the
Indo-Australian tropics will prove best placed in other genera. The widespread
Australasian H. xylinata Warren (Robinson, 1975; Holloway, 1979) has
genitalic characters more or less consistent with placement in Horisme, however.
The limits of Pseudocollix are therefore unclear, but possibly
predominantly Oriental.
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