Eublemma roseana Moore

Thalpochares roseana Moore, 1881, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1881: 370.

Diagnosis

This and E. cochylioides are very similar in facies, together with E. rivula Moore, having a pale creamy or fawn area at the base of the forewing, separated by an oblique brown bar, diffusely fading basad but edged strongly paler distad from a distal half of greenish or rosy brown-grey that contains a pale submarginal that is sinuous over the posterior two thirds, then angles round to the costa, over the anterior third; it darkens distad and is edged more darkly basad by the colour of the band between it and the medial line, a band which in roseana is pinkish. E. rivula and allies (see note below) are similar, but in these this band is the same colour as the part distal to the postmedial. See also E. cochylioides.

Taxonomic note

Mention is made of rivula because material that has been attributed to it has been recorded though the Old World tropics to Australia and the Society Is., so it may also be represented on Borneo. However, Edwards in Nielsen et al. (1996: 376) has pointed out that a complex may be involved, as its Australian synonym pusilla Butler (a junior homonym) is distinct from the rivula figured by Robinson (1975) for Fiji and by Holloway (1979) for New Caledonia. Material from the Indian Subregion attributed to rivula has male genitalia as in these Pacific populations. All these taxa were assigned to Eublemma by Poole (1989).