Eublemma crassiuscula Walker

Thermesia crassi uscula Walker, 1864, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 186.

Mestleta duplexa Moore, 1877, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1877: 611.

Eublemma flavipars Hampson, 1910, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus., 10: 797.

Eublemmoides ochracea Warren, 1913, Gross-Schmett. Erde 11: 214.

Diagnosis

The general facies is as in the sequence of species starting from brachygonia above, but the wings are a rich, pale to medium brown with a strong ochreous tinge. The line of the medial fasciae continues from that of the hindwing to the forewing apex, and each consists of a darker red-brown line that grades away distad, highlighted by a violet zone between it and the more irregular and finer postmedial distad. The postmedial is closer to the medial and more generally parallel than in brachygonia and allies.

Taxonomic note

Poole placed the species in Eublemmoides, hich he retained as distinct, but the genus is treated as a synonym of Autoba by Edwards in Nielsen et al. (1996).

Geographical range

Indo-Australian tropics east to Australia, Vanuatu and Fiji.

Habitat preference

Older material is generally from areas in the lowlands with habitation such as Kuching and Bidi in Sarawak. In recent surveys, one specimen was recorded from disturbed coastal vegetation at Seria in Brunei, but three others were taken in lower montane forest during the Mulu survey: two from 900m on the limestone G. Api and one from 1000m on G. Mulu. Chey (1994) recorded four in a Paraserianthes plantation and secondary forest near Brumas in the lowlands of Sabah.

Biology

H.S. Barlow (pers. comm.) has reared the species from a larva in Peninsular Malaysia feeding on Bauhinia integrifolia (Leguminosae) flowers. It pupated in a globular cocoon that incorporated plant fragments.

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