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Sarobides Hampson
Type
species: inconclusa Walker,
Borneo.
The type
species is described below. The male abdomen has a number of unusual features,
and the valves of the genitalia show marked bilateral asymmetry. The eighth
sternite has a bidentate interior margin between the lateral rods. The tegumen
has lateral processes. The processes of the valves are robust, with rasp-like
spining in the more complex ones of the left side. There is a small digitate
process on each side just basal to the major ones. The aedeagus also has
rasp-like spining, and the vesica is simple, narrow. The female has a highly
complex pocket around the ostium that contains spined processes.
The taxa
associated with Sarobides by Poole (1989) are not closely related, as discussed
under “Saroba”
next. The species that shares most features with inconclusa is
“Saroba”
pansa
Swinhoe
(see below), where the valve processes have bilateral asymmetry and the tegumen
has lateral processes. The female genitalia do not share any unusual features,
however.
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