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Metaphoenia Hampson
Type
species: plagifera Walker,
Borneo.
This
genus consists of a small number of species with facies as in the Bornean
representatives. All species are mentioned below except for the outlying
Australian M. rhodias Turner, transferred to the genus in Nielsen et
al. (1996),
who included it in the Hypeninae. The forewings are somewhat shorter and deeper
than in Olulis Walker and Parolulis,
and the irregular fasciation of the greenish fawn (sometimes with a reddish
tint) forewing is generally more transverse. The hindwings have a wide black
border of varying intensity. The labial palps are directed forwards rather than
being upcurved, crested dorsally with scales, and having the third segment very
short relative to the second.
The male
abdomen has the eighth segment of the framed corematous type, and the genitalia
show the Saroba group features, as do those of the female, the
scobinate sterigma often taking the form of a pair of pockets flanking the
ostium.
The
differences between the species are slight, and associating males and females is
difficult.
The
complex of species related to the type species (see below) was recorded
exclusively in forest understorey samples in the vicinity of the Danum Valley
Field Centre by S.J. Willott (unpublished data).
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