Gymnoscelis confusata Walker 

Eupithecia confusata Walker, 1866, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 35: 1676.

Eupithecia subtristigera Walker, 1866, Ibid., 35: 1679, syn. n.

Diagnosis

This and the next species are easily confused and are perhaps only reliably separated by dissection of the male genitalia, where confusata has much larger cornuti in the aedeagus vesica as in the Australasian taxa mentioned in the introduction to the complex. This species is somewhat darker, more strongly marked, with the hindwing postmedial straighter over the posterior two-thirds, less biangular, and more clearly defined by a paler band distad. The female has a broader, shorter, more scobinate and sclerotised ductus that broadens slightly towards the ostium. The specimen identified as confusata by Holloway (1976) is a damaged female with genitalia (slide 9091) not entirely consistent with the above diagnosis. It may in fact be imparatalis.

Geographical Range

Borneo, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, ?India.

Habitat Preference

Specimens taken in recent surveys are all singletons from various montane forests: 1618m on Bukit Retak; 900m on G. Api; 1000m on G. Mulu. The original material is likely to have been from the lowlands.

Genitalia: