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Tympanota arfakensis Joicey & Talbot 
   
Sauris griseolauta arfakensis Joicey & Talbot, 1917, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 20: 68.
   
Sauris gyiarces Prout, 1932c: 75.
   
Sauris arfakensis catopercna Prout, S. a. seclusa Prout, 1958, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.)
        6: 458.
   
Sauris arfakensis gyiarces Prout; Holloway, 1976: 73.


Tympanota arfakensis


Tympanota arfakensis
(holotype of gyiarces)


Diagnosis. The markings of the forewings and lobing of the male hindwing are similar to those of T. ceramica, but the fasciation is green and brownish green, the hindwings being yellow-brown.

Taxonomic notes. Prout (1932c) included this species in Tympanota, with the latter placed as a subgenus of Sauris. Holloway (1976) considered the taxa gyiarces and seclusa, described from Kinabalu and Peninsular Malaysia respectively, represented extremes of variation in development of the male hindwing lobe, that in gyiarces being about twice as large as that in seclusa (and typical arfakensis) and yellower, only slightly tinged brown. The male genitalia of the two extremes show no obvious differences, though the coremata are somewhat narrower in the holotype of gyiarces.

Geographical range. New Guinea; S. Moluccas (ssp. catopercna); Luzon, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia (ssp. gyiarces).

Habitat preference. As with T. erecta, the only records have been from G. Kinabalu over an altitude range of 1050-2970m. It is most abundant from 1900m to 2600m.

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