Bocchoris discrepans Butler

Taxonomy

The holotype of Aediodes discrepans Butler, 1887: 117 is from the Solomon Is., (Malaita, Shortland Is. [Alu])

• syn. Desmia discrepans dissimulalis Rothchild 1915: 128. Irian Jaya (Maoke Mountains [Snow Mountains] Uttakwa River). (Infra specific).

Treated as Desmia Westwood, 1832 in Globiz.

Description

A Bocchoris sp. with two white spots on each wing. The basal spot of the FW joins the costa near the antemedian possition. The basal one on the HW is more like a broad band from the inner margin.The male abdomen is rather elongated and has a white basal segment and another white band near the tip. This species is included with Bornean taxa because if it is proven to be conspecific with unamed morphotypes like Bocchoris sp 1 its range will extend from India through S.E. Asia to Australia and the Pacific. Bocchoris ciliata Swinhoe, 1894: 206 is also  very similar and may be conspecific.

References

• Westwood, J. O. (1832) Desmie, Desmia. Magasin de Zoologie, Paris 2: unpaginated, pl. 2.
• Butler, A. G. (1887) XI Description of New Species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera (Pyralites) from the Solomon Islands. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. Ser. 5, 20, (116): 114-124.
• Rothschild, L. W. & Durrant, J. H. (1915a) Lepidoptera collected by the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains southern Dutch New Guinea, pp 182, 2 Pls. Zoo. Museum. Tring.
• Swinhoe, C. (1894a) XXII New species of Geometers and Pyrales from the Khasia Hills. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser 6, 14 (80): 135-149.