Eugnathia xenia Swinhoe comb. n.

Cerynea xenia Swinhoe, 1902, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7), 9: 169.

Eugnathia roseoliva Warren, 1913, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 11: 240, syn. n.

Diagnosis

The forewing costal band has an irregular posterior margin and consists of pinkish brown marbling and barring on a bone-coloured ground. There is an irregular, angled and partially zigzagged postmedial of the same bone colour. Between these features the forewing is a dull olive green that darkens towards the costal band. The hindwing has a similar green tinge from subbasally to the postmedial; there is a dark bar on the dorsum associated with the postmedial.

Geographical range

Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo.

Habitat preference

The species is known in Borneo from the holotype of roseoliva, labelled just ‘Sarawak, Borneo’, and a specimen collected in lowland forest of the Barito Ulu, in Kalimantan Tengah.

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