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Chandica
Moore
Type
species: quadripennis
Moore, India.
This genus begins a sequence of three where the forewings are deep reddish
brown and yellow. In Chandica the yellow markings are all marginal, and
the male hindwings are modified with a slightly concave margin and areas of
androconial and hair-like scales along the costa and dorsum and along CuA in the
cell. The forewing areole is minute (Hampson, 1912), giving rise to a distally
bifurcating (R3, R4) and, basally, R5. On the hindwing there is a branching
system of (M2 (M3, CuA1)). The costal zone of the male hindwing is usually
modified, folded, and the margin can be angled. In
C.
schistipennis
Warren (see below) the male hindwing is longitudinally narrowed by crinkling.
In
the male abdomen there is no basal tymbal structure, but both sclerites of the
eighth segment have prominent, slender apodemes, those of the sternite much
longer than those of the tergite (Fig 382), and there are curved scale tufts on
the distal lobes of the sternite. The intersegmental membrane between the eighth
segment and the genitalia is voluminously expanded. The genitalia have a short
uncus and long tegumen. The valves have well developed basal hair pencils and,
apically, an ovate pad of rows of basally and inwardly directed peg-like setae.
The aedeagus vesica is large, terminating in a narrow lobe with an apical
cluster of cornuti.
The female has a narrow ductus half the length of the elongate bursa, the larger
basal part thickened, partly sclerotised and with a field of spines.
Three of the included species occur in Borneo, but gertae Kobes,
described from Sumatra, proves on dissection to be synonymous with the Himalayan
type species, quadripennis, syn. n. It is not clear which species
Kobes (1997) identified as quadripennis, but it is possibly the second of
those discussed below. More easterly taxa placed by Poole (1989) as synonyms of
quadripennis prove on dissection to be valid species as follows:
C.
schistipennis
Warren stat. rev. (=
lobophorina
Prout syn. n.; Sulawesi, Seram);
C.
meeki
Warren stat. rev. (New Guinea).
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