Image of Vamuna remelana Moore ♂ (approx. lifesize)
♂ (approx. lifesize)
Image of Vamuna remelana Moore ♀ (approx. lifesize)
♀ (approx. lifesize)

Vamuna remelana Moore

Lithosia remelana Moore, 1865, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1865: 798.

Gnophria quadrimaculata Möschler, 1872, Stettin. ent. Ztg., 33: 352.

Agylla ramelana Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus., 2: 211.

Agylla ramelana ab. obsoleta Draudt, 1914, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 10: 200.

Agylla ramelana ab. restricta Draudt, 1914, Gross-Schmett. Erde, 10: 200.

Agylla remelana semiobsoleta Holloway, 1976: 2.

Diagnosis

The two Bornean representatives have a similar general appearance, but remelana has a pure white ground colour, marked only with black, never tinged brown or yellow. The margins on either side of the forewing apex are finely black, and the wing often has a black band on the dorsal surface that is only weakly expressed on the underside; the reverse is true in maculata Moore. The forewing band can be entire, absent or, more rarely, present as just a few spots. The hindwing submarginal black spot seen in typical Himalayan material is usually absent or only weakly expressed.

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Species (1)


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