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Sauris
auricula Warren
Remodes auricula Warren, 1895 Novit. zool., 2 107
Sauris denigrata Warren or close, sensu Holloway, 1976:
73.
Sauris
auricula 
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Sauris
auricula (Java) |
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Diagnosis. In facies this species could be confused with S. denigrata, but
the forewing in both sexes has a strong triple brown band just distal to a broad
pale band that contains the discal spot. This spot and the rest of the fasciae
are green, though there is a row of brown dashes at the wing margin. The central
element of the triple band is broader than the other two. The hindwings are
grey-brown, that of the male having a lobed distal margin, the narrow central
lobes being invested with darker scales.
The male genitalia have, relative to those of denigrata, a much
smaller distal costal process on the valve but a much larger, more produced
setose distal marginal area (somewhat corematous: folded in in Fig 321, but out
in Holloway (1976: fig. 522)).
Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java.
Habitat preference. The only Bornean specimen, a male, is from montane
forest at 1660m on G. Kinabalu. The specimens from elsewhere in the range are
also from montane localities. Two females from 1150m on G. Emas in the Crocker
Range may also be of auricula (colln Herbulot).
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