Eublemma marmorata Wileman & West

Eublemma marmorata Wileman & West, 1929, Novit. zool., 35: 11.

Diagnosis

See E. trifasciata. The forewings are pale grey, obliquely and irregularly banded with darker grey tinged with olive green. The bands are separated by fine, wavy, pale fasciae, the most distal of which has a small black patch between it and the apex, and sometimes another in a similar position near the dorsum.

Taxonomic note

This species is related to E. glaucochroa Turner (as glaucochroa Hampson in Holloway (1979)) from Australia and New Caledonia. Edwards in Nielsen et al. (1996) excluded glaucochroa from Eublemma, indicating there was no available genus, but the male genitalia are consistent with the broad concept of the genus favoured here. Poole (1989) included marmorata in Eublemma but placed glaucochroa in Autoba.

Geographical range

Philippines, Borneo.

Habitat preference

The only specimen from Borneo was taken at about 600m on G. Trus Madi in Sabah.

Biology

McFarland (1979) recorded the larvae of glaucochroa in “fuzz-nests” on the leaves, leaf-buds and growing tips of the weedy, herbaceous Pterocaulon (Compositae) in Australia.

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