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“Saroba”
pansa
Swinhoe
Capnodes
pansa Swinhoe, 1902, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7),
9: 175.
Diagnosis.
The wings are dark reddish grey brown, paler and greyer distal to the forewing
postmedial. The forewing reniform is pale orange, edged irregularly with white
that extends to the costa. The antemedial is also white, narrow, with two distal
acute projections.
Taxonomic
note. Features of pansa are
mentioned under Sarobides above. The valves have three processes, several of
which are as large as the valve apex. The aedeagus has a subapical thorn-like
spine. The vesica is moderately broad, with small lobes, and a small cornutus
subbasally. The female has a large, pyriform corpus bursae with an incomplete
ring of small spines subbasally.
Geographical
range. Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.
Habitat
preference. This is a rare species but has been recorded from the lowlands
to 1618m.
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