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Sarobides Hampson
Type
species: inconclusa Walker,
Borneo.
The type
species is described below. The male abdomen has a number of unusual features,
and the valves of the genitalia show marked bilateral asymmetry. The eighth
sternite has a bidentate interior margin between the lateral rods. The tegumen
has lateral processes. The processes of the valves are robust, with rasp-like
spining in the more complex ones of the left side. There is a small digitate
process on each side just basal to the major ones. The aedeagus also has
rasp-like spining, and the vesica is simple, narrow. The female has a highly
complex pocket around the ostium that contains spined processes.
The taxa
associated with Sarobides by Poole (1989) are not closely related, as discussed
under �Saroba�
next. The species that shares most features with inconclusa is
�Saroba�
pansa
Swinhoe
(see below), where the valve processes have bilateral asymmetry and the tegumen
has lateral processes. The female genitalia do not share any unusual features,
however.
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