Silba botanica

This species belongs to the Silba abstata McAlpine, 1956 group of species all of
which are rather small, with a relatively short antennal flagellomere, an elongate epandrium with short cerci
and with a row of teeth on the inner surface of the surstyli situated parallel to the ventral margin. McAlpine
(1975) provided a key to the known species. With a pale squamal fringe and a simple aedeagus this species is
most closely similar to S. lucens (de Meijere, 1910) from Java and S. imitata McAlpine, 1964 from Australia.
It is distinguished from both these species by having more teeth on the surstylus including one projecting posteriorly
and by the more slender, angled aedeagus.