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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 ♂
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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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