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Species A
Two specimens, a male
(slide 10752) from wet heath forest near the Melinau Gorge, Mulu National
Park, and a female (slide 10753) from dry heath forest at Telisai,
Brunei, represent a species of appearance similar to some Chlorissa or Hemistola
Warren. However, the valves of the male genitalia are an unusual
paddle-shape, unlike the genitalia of either of those two genera. The socii are
vestigial, and the saccus large and squarish. The distal margin of the eighth
sternite is sclerotised, with a bifid process centrally. The antennae of both
sexes are regularly bipectinate, the pectinations tapering away distad.
The wings are a clear
emerald green, the margins lined red as in many Hemitheiti. There is only faint
fasciation and discal marking.
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