SUBFAMILY HADENINAE
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Callopistria emiliusalis Walker  
Diethusa emiliusalis Walker, 1857, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 16: 206.
Eutelia consentana Walker, 1864, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.), 7:68.
Lusia detegens Walker, 1864,Ibid. 7: 72.
Euxoa cabara Swinhoe, 1918, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9), 2. 66, syn. n.; Syntype  ♀  labelled  'Padang, W. Sumatra' hereby designated LECTOTYPE. Of two paralectotypes, one is emiliusalis, the other Condica illecta Walker.


Callopistria emiliusalis ♂
 


Diagnosis.
This and the next two species are large, dull brownish grey species lacking the submarginal white markings of most other Callopistria. C. emiliusalis has rather uniform forewings though sometimes with a blackish circular zone basally. There is an oblique, dark, diffuse bar medially in emiliusalis that in ventralis forms the basal boundary of a diagnostic dark brown triangular area bounded distally by the postmedial (which is straighter than in emiliusalis) and containing a distinctive white streak that occurs only as a faintly paler dot in emiliusalis. The male genitalia of all three species are very similar; the valves in emiliusalis are apically slightly broader, squarer.

Geographical range. Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra.

Habitat preference. Most material is from disturbed or open habitats.

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