Eublemma trifasciata Moore

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

Eublemma demba Swinhoe, 1901, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 7: 472.

Diagnosis

This and E. marmorata are very similar, the forewings having darkish greenish-grey bands on a whitish ground which appears in finer bands between the dark colour. This banding is more transverse in trifasciata, the white components slightly broader and more irregular. There is an apical zone of darker colour distal to the submarginal white fascia that is more extensive (three intervenous spaces) than in E. marmorata.

Taxonomic note

Poole (1989) assigned this species to Eublemma.

Geographical range

India, Borneo.

Habitat preference

The holotype of demba has no more precise data than ‘Sarawak’. A second specimen has been taken in recent surveys in an area of disturbed lowland forest at Semongok near Kuching.