Eublemma pudica Snellen

Thalpochares pudica Snellen, 1880, Tijdschr. Ent., 23: 63.

Mestleta acontioides Moore, 1882, Descr. new Indian lepid. Insects Colln W.S. Atkinson: 179.

Mestleta interrupta Moore, [1885] 1884-1887, Lep. Ceylon, 3: 209.

Eublemma stereoscia Turner, 1936, Proc. R. Soc. Qd, 47: 33.

Diagnosis

The wings are a pale greyish fawn, strongly marked with dark brown: an oblique band, diffusing away basad, on the forewing and a short section of a similar band centrally on the hindwing dorsum.

Taxonomic note

Poole (1989) assigned the species to Eublemma.

Geographical range

Indo-Australian tropics east to Queensland and Samoa.

Habitat preference

The only Bornean specimens seen are one from disturbed lowland forest at 30-60m in the Labi area of Brunei and two from Kuching, the capital town of Sarawak, situated by a river mouth.

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