Eublemma ragusana Freyer

Anthophila ragusana Freyer, 1845, Neuere Beitr. Schmett. 5: 92.

Anthophila virginea Guenée, 1852, Hist. nat. Insectes, Spec. gén. Lépid. 6: 248.

Anthophila cinerina Ghiliani, 1854, Memorie Accad. Sci. Torino (2), 14: 214.

Thalpochares psilogramma Lederer, 1855, Verh. Zool.-bot. ver. Wien, 5: 207.

Hypena quinquelinealis Moore, 1877, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1877: 612.

Thalpochares dividens Lucas, 1892, Proc. R. Soc. Qd, 8: 87.

Diagnosis

The wings are pale grey, the forewings distinctively darkened by a series of fine, oblique grey and brownish fasciae that converge on each other towards the apex, some being sharply angled back subcostally.

Taxonomic note

Poole (1989) placed the species in Eublemma.

Geographical range

Old World tropics and Mediterranean to Queensland, New Caledonia and Fiji.

Habitat preference

In recent surveys a single specimen has been taken in an area of disturbed lowland forest at Semongok near Kuching.

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