Cyclophora obstataria Walker comb. n.

Acidalia obstataria Walker, 1861, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 23: 769.

Anisodes ignorata Walker, 1862, Ibid., 26: 1584.

Anisodes (?) cryptorhodata Walker, 1862, Ibid. 26: 1682.

Dicoya acuta Moore, 1887, Lep. Ceylon, 3: 445.

Pisoraca tenuis Warren, 1907, Novit. zool., 14: 144.

Diagnosis

and C. imbuta* Warren are smallish rather uniform red species that could be confused with members of the Trirachopoda section of Perixera Meyrick but the discal spots lack pale centres, being more transverse dashes. The male hind-tibia is not shortened and tufted as in that section. This species can only reliably be distinguished from imbuta by the male genitalia, a process that led to recognition that imbuta Warren was distinct. The red ground colour may be a little deeper in imbuta but this is not fully reliable. In imbuta the valves are more elongate, the processes flanking the tegumen are larger, more outcurved, the left longer than the right rather than vice versa. The aedeagus vesica in imbuta has a long, slender, rather sinuous cornutus. Holloway (1979: 286) discussed other Australasian and Pacific species in this group: C. compacta Warren comb. n. (Kei, New Guinea, Queensland); C. lateritica Holloway comb. n. (New Caledonia): C. lautokensis Prout comb. n. (Fiji).

Geographical Range

Indian Subregion and China to Sundaland, New Guinea and Queensland.

Habitat Preference

During the Mulu survey singletons were taken in lower montane forest at 900m on G. Api and 1000m on G. Mulu.

Biology

The New Caledonian C. lateritica was reared from Codia (Cunoniaceae), but the Cunoniaceae are largely Australasian (Holloway, 1979).

Genitalia: