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Savara
anomioides Walker
stat. rev.
Capnodes anomioides Walker,
1864, J.
Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 188.
Savara
contraria Walker
sensu
Holloway,
1976: 37, partim.
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Savara
anomioides  |
Savara
anomioides |
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Diagnosis.
Males of this and the next two species are very similar and are most reliably
distinguished on genitalia features. However, anomioides usually
has a strong subapical black chevron on the forewing underside; this may have a
slight whitening of its distal edge. This character is less reliable in the
eastern part of the range. In the male genitalia the aedeagus is longer and
slightly more slender than in the new species below. The saccus is slightly more
excavate, and there is a diagnostic lobe near the ventral margin of the curved
apical part of the valve. The pair of lobes on the anterior margin of the eighth
sternite are deeper but less laterally extensive than in the new species. The
female has the basal zone of the ductus only slightly wider than the rest, which
is slightly and finely scobinate between this zone and the junction of the
ductus seminalis. In the corpus bursae, one of the two longitudinal scobinate
bands is broken into two sections.
Taxonomic
note. Representation in the Solomons needs further investigation. All
material seen is from Choiseul I. A female has genitalia typical of the species,
but the males have postmedials on the underside that are dark, rather diffuse
and jagged; the genitalia (slide 18815) lack a subapical lobe on the valve.
Geographical
range. Borneo, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia;
[New Guinea] St. Aignan I. (slide 18814), Solomons (slide 19349), Bismarcks.
Habitat
preference. The species has been recorded from the lowlands to 1930m,
occurring in a variety of forest types, including heath forest.
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