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Grammodes Guenée
Type
species: geometrica Fabricius.
Synonym:
Prodotis
John
(type species stolida Fabricius,
India).
This
genus, the last in the sequence for the Achaea /
Parallelia
complex,
contains a typical group of species that ranges throughout the Old World tropics
and subtropics and a small Australasian group with larvae only known to feed on
Euphorbiaceae and possibly not closely related to the typical group (Holloway
& Miller, 2003). The description here is restricted to the latter.
The
forewings have a black triangle divided by a medial white bar and separated from
the costa by a greyish strip as illustrated. The male genitalia have a
superuncus as in Achaea,
but also a lateral process on the right side of the tegumen. The valves have
bilateral asymmetry, with the costal and saccular processes joined across the
base, tripartite, but with reduction of these on the right side, rather than on
the left as in Buzara. The aedeagus vesica has a corkscrew-like cornutus that is
matched by a similar twisted sclerotisation in the female that leads to the
ductus seminalis. In the female, the plate of the lamella antevaginalis is
rather square, the ductus relatively short, and the bursa has a spiny zone near
the corkscrew sclerotisation.
The host
plant range for the typical group is very wide, from 14 families, but with no
particular concentration in the Euphorbiaceae. However, the type species may be
locally restricted to this family as discussed below.
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