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Tamba
capatra Swinhoe
Zethes
capatra Swinhoe, 1903, Fasc. malayenses, 1:
81.
Diagnosis.
This and the next two species are very similar in size and facies, being marked
in shades of darker brown on a fawn ground, with the hindwing postmedial pale,
obtusely angled, and with a series of dark brown marks in the spaces just
exterior to it. In capatra the medial area is darker brown, this shade on the
forewing extending broadly to the apex and enclosing the large, pale, bilobed
reniform. On the hindwing there is a separate dark brown patch in the centre of
the marginal area. The part of the forewing postmedial posterior to the angle is
distinctly concave. The male genitalia have the costal process of the valve
moderate and spatulate and the more ventral one shorter, tapering slightly, a
narrow trapezoid.
Taxonomic
note. Kobes recorded capatra from
Sumatra in his description of T.
bartelsi Kobes
(see below).
Geographical
range. Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.
Habitat
preference. Three specimens have been recorded from lowland dipterocarp
forest at or below 300m in Brunei, and there is a third specimen from the
locality near Pontianak noted for the next species. Chey (1994) took the species
in low numbers in his survey of lowland softwood plantations in Sabah.
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