Oglasa pachycnemis Hampson

Oglasa pachycnemis Hampson, 1926, Descr. Gen. Spec. Noctuinae, p. 221.

Diagnosis

The wings are a uniform brownish grey, the forewings only faintly marked: a bipunctate reniform; indications of fasciae on the costa; a punctate submarginal; a dark/pale zig-zag at the dorsum representing the posterior half of the postmedial.

Taxonomic Notes

The facies and male abdomen indicate this species is misplaced in Oglasa. The eighth segment is unmodified except for two short, broad apodemes on the somewhat wider tergite. The uncus is sinuous, apically acute, somewhat as in Pangrapta(p. 325), and there is a moderate scaphium. The valves are elongate-ovate, with dorsally directed setae on the sacculus and apex. There is a slight subcostal fold that extends to the centre of the valve. The juxta is plate-like. The aedeagus has an ovate vesica that is scobinate throughout, the scobination becoming coarser distally.

Geographical range

Borneo.

Habitat preference

The species is based on two specimens taken by A.R. Wallace in Sarawak.

Recent surveys have added two more: one from lowland forest at Semengok near Kuching: one from forest on limestone at 250m on the lower slopes of G. Api just west of the Melinau Gorge.

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