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Mecodina
poaphiloides Walker
comb. n.
Thermesia
poaphiloides Walker,
1864, J.
Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 7: 186.
Mecodina
sumatrana Kobes, 1984, Heterocera Sumatrana 2:
30, syn.
n.
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Mecodina
poaphiloides |
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Diagnosis.
This is a small rather uniform species with facies typical of the genus,
distinguished by an abnormally large, irregular, white-edged, dark brown patch
submarginally on the forewing costa: it extends half way across towards the
dorsum.
Taxonomic
note. The species was transferred to Bocula
by
Poole (1989), following the BMNH arrangement, but it is better placed in Mecodina
as
indicated by Kobes, though the valves of the male genitalia are cleft
subcostally and have a setose lobe on the sacculus, and the female has the long
ductus bursae sclerotised and has two small scobinate signa centrally in the
corpus bursae. Martini & Thöny (1993) also noted the conspecificity of sumatrana
with
poaphiloides
but
did not make a formal synonymy.
Geographical
range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Thailand (VK).
Habitat
preference. A single female has been taken in recent surveys in lowland
dipterocarp forest at 300m in the Ulu Temburong of Brunei. There is also a
specimen from Beaufort, and two without precise data from G. Marapok in Sabah.
The original material, taken in Sarawak by A.R. Wallace, was probably also from
the lowlands. However, Martini & Thöny (1993) took the species at 800m.
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