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Fascellina
inconspicua Warren stat. rev.
Fascellina inconspicua
Warren, 1894, Novit. zool., 1: 446.
Diagnosis. In both this and the next species the hindwings are distinctively
produced centrally at the margin. The forewing tornus is strongly excavate. All
the hindwing and most of the forewing are coloured deep rich brown on a greyish
ground, with diffuse and finely linear darker fasciae; the forewing costa is
broadly greenish. See diagnosis of the next species.
Taxonomic notes. Sundanian inconspicua is distinguished from the Himalayan F.
subsignata Warren in having the strongly angled forewing submarginal more
irregular and also the antemedial. The straight brown medial on the yellow
hindwing underside is broader, more intense in the Himalayan species and the
underside ground colour is more orange in the Sundanian one. In subsignata the
basal half of the hindwing upperside is diagnostically paler than the rest of
the wing. The male genitalia differ in the length of the furca arm: the left is
longer, and more slender in inconspicua, but the right is only half the
length of that of subsignata.
Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.
Habitat preference. Bornean material is all from lowland localities
except for a male from 1465m on Bukit Retak, Brunei. It is probably a
forest species.
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