Conogethes sp. 4

Taxonomy

Conogethes sp. 4 from Sabah, PHS. Two unnamed specimens in the Schulze Coll.; another poor specimen in the Oxford U.M.N.H. Coll..

Description

Another yellow species with blackish and dark fulvous-brown markings. Differs from C. clioalis Walker, 1859d: 549-550 by having termenal dashes, not spots, on HW and the FW postmedian fascia lineation is barely broken into spots. Like Conogethes sp. 2 it lacks the large distinct spot very obvious in the base of the HW of Conogethes evaxalis Walker 1859e: 995; and the small punctum of Conogethes sp. 3. See Conogethes sp. 6 which may be conspecific but that morphotype has slightly less distinct marginal marks.

Schulze (2000) Taxon #242 ‘Conogethes sp. 11 nr evaxalis’.

References

• Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 350pp.
• Walker, F. (1859e) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 19: 799-1036.
• Walker, F. (1859d [May 10]) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 18: 509-798.