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Hylophilodes Hampson
Type
species: orientalis Hampson, India.
This genus again has distinctive facies, the forewings being speckled fawn, banded and shaded finely with dull
green, and the hindwings are white.
The male abdomen has short, relatively
broad apodemes to the sclerites of the eighth segment. The valves are rather
paddle-like though broadly based, with large setal bases on the sacculus. There
is a small process on the ventral margin at the junction of the ‘neck’ of the
paddle with its broader distal part. The aedeagus vesica is small but invested
with numerous small cornuti.
The female genitalia have a short ductus with a pyriform bursa and appendix
bursae. The ovipositor lobes are ring-like.
The genus has its greatest diversity in China, but extends to Sundaland
with two species (Kobes, 1997; see below), and
H.
rubromarginata
Bethune-Baker in New Guinea and Seram.
Mell (1943) recorded Fagus (Fagaceae) as a host-plant for the
Chinese species
H.
pacifica
Mell. Lithocarpus in the same family has been recorded for a Japanese
species by Teramoto (1996).
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