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SUBFAMILY
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Cyclodes Guenée Type species: omma Hoeven, Java. Synonym: Beregra Walker (type species replenens Walker, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh = omma). The facies of this genus is unmistakable, pale mauve and brown, particularly the antemedial ocellus on the forewing. The antennae are very long, extending to beyond three‑quarters of the length of the forewing, and are smooth, filiform in the male. The clypeofrons is sparsely scaled, the scales tending to converge at a central point. The labial palps are catocaline in proportion and orientation, albeit with a somewhat short third segment. The foretibia in both sexes is modified somewhat with hair tufts. In the male abdomen, the eighth tergite is anteriorly narrow, with a strong pair of apodemes, and broadens to twice the anterior width distally. The sternite has an ovate anterior lacuna surrounded by a slight frame with very shallow apodemes on the anterior margin, but no lateral rods. This segment may be a weakly developed form of the framed corematous type. There are no diaphragmal lobes between the first and second tergites in both sexes. The genitalia have the tegumen broadened each side, with a zone of hairs that may represent a peniculus. The articulation of the tegumen and vinculum involves a marked overlap that may include an paratergal sclerite, though the continuity of this exterior portion of the overlap with the vinculum is hard to interpret. The valves are slightly upcurved, simple, expanded subapically, with a small conical harpe at the apex of the sacculus. The juxta is a transversely diamond‑shaped plate. The aedeagus vesica is a simple tube, slightly swollen near the base. In the female genitalia, the ovipositor lobes are flattened, resembling the condition in Limacodidae, a family also with some propensity for palms as host plants. The ostium is situated between the seventh and eighth segments, the former with the sternite only slightly smaller than the tergite. The ostium is half as wide as the eighth segment. The ductus narrows abruptly from it and is mostly slender, unsclerotised, and one third of the length of the corpus bursae. This latter is an elongate ovate, scobinate throughout, but with the scobination stronger subbasally and apically. The scaled clypeofrons, the structure of the basal tergites of the abdomen, and the peniculus, paratergal area and valve structure of the male genitalia suggest that the genus may be better placed as a basal member of the trifine sequence of groups rather than with the catocalines. The sinuous hindwing fasciation is reminiscent of that in genera such as Ortopla Walker. The larva of the type species is described below. The arrangement of the setation anteriorly resembles somewhat that described for Donda sailendra Kobes on p. 17. |
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