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Selepa
discigera
Walker
Gadirtha? discigera Walker, 1864, J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 163.
Selepa
strigifera
Moore, 1885, Lep. Ceylon, 3: 103.
Selepa discigera ab.
caniceps
Strand, 1917, Arch. Naturgesch., 82 (A1): 83.
Selepa discigera ab. hampsoni
Strand, 1917, Arch. Naturgesch., 82 (A1): 83.
Selepa discigera ab.
walkeri
Strand, 1917, Arch. Naturgesch., 82 (A1): 83.
Selepa discigera
caniceps,
hampsoni and
walkeri
Gaede, 1937, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 11: 396.
Diagnosis. This species has rather blackish forewings, the postmedial loop
being relatively distal and evenly curved. There is a black longitudinal streak
subdorsally that is often edged white. The male genitalia have the saccular
process about as long as the valve, strongly curved over the basal quarter and
relatively straight thereafter (this characteristic is less extreme in
Australian material dissected: slides 17001, 17030). In the female genitalia the
bursa is globular, with two circular patches of faint scobination: at one-third
and two-thirds.
Geographical range. Indo-Australian tropics east to New Guinea and
Queensland.
Habitat preference. The species has only been taken twice in recent surveys,
both times in lowland dipterocarp forest (Labi in Brunei and the Danum Valley
Field Centre in Sabah). The type material was taken in Sarawak by A.R. Wallace,
probably also in the lowlands.
Biology. Mell (1943) noted Stillingia (Euphorbiaceae) as a host-plant
in China, and Williams (1928) recorded it (as celtis; voucher in USNM
examined) as attacking fruits of three species of Ficus (Moraceae) in the
Philippines. A specimen in BMNH was reared from Rhus (Anacardiaceae) in
Hong Kong.
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