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“Oglasa”
pachycnemis
Hampson
Oglasa
pachycnemis Hampson, 1926, Descr. Gen. Spec. Noctuinae,
p. 221.
Diagnosis.
The wings are a uniform brownish grey, the forewings only faintly marked: a
bipunctate reniform; indications of fasciae on the costa; a punctate submarginal;
a dark/pale zig-zag at the dorsum representing the posterior half of the
postmedial.
Taxonomic
note. The facies and male abdomen indicate this species is misplaced
in Oglasa.
The eighth segment is unmodified except for two short, broad apodemes on the
somewhat wider tergite. The uncus is sinuous, apically acute, somewhat as in Pangrapta
(p.
325), and there is a moderate scaphium. The valves are elongate-ovate, with
dorsally directed setae on the sacculus and apex. There is a slight subcostal
fold that extends to the centre of the valve. The juxta is plate-like. The
aedeagus has an ovate vesica that is scobinate throughout, the scobination
becoming coarser distally.
Geographical
range. Borneo.
Habitat
preference. The species is based on two specimens taken by A.R. Wallace in
Sarawak. Recent surveys have added two more: one from lowland forest at Semengok
near Kuching: one from forest on limestone at 250m on the lower slopes of G. Api
just west of the Melinau Gorge.
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