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Pomasia gelastis Meyrick stat. rev.
   
Pomasia gelastis Meyrick, 1897, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond., 1897: 70.


Pomasia gelastis
(x 1.16)


Pomasia gelastis
(x 1.16)


Diagnosis and taxonomic notes. Males tend to be rather dark with narrow fasciae, females somewhat larger, patterned more as in vernacularia. This association is made primarily on grounds of the match between robustness of the aedeagus and its ornamentation and the strength of the spining in the neck of the bursa (the ostium is also very broad): the aedeagus cornuti would probably be rather basal in the vesica when everted. The next three species have a narrow aedeagus, the vesica lightly ornamented with indications that the cornuti are more distal. The bursa neck in these species is heavily ornamented, whereas the bulb is extensively spined: in galastis it is immaculate, and there is an appendix laterally.

Geographical range. Borneo, N.E. Himalaya (slide 18870).

Habitat preference. The species ranges from the lowlands to about 1700m, always taken in forested localities though this includes secondary forest.

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