Eoophyla gibbosalis Guenee

Taxonomy

The holotype of Aulacodes gibbosalis Guenée (1854: 262) is from Java.

Syn? Oligostigma plicatalis Walker, [1866] 1865: 1332. The type from Sulawesi (Makian) is in the Oxford UMNH. (Note on LepIndex card & Li et al. 2009).

• syn. Oligostigma tripunctalis Walker, [1866] 1865: 1531 in Li et al. (2009).
  • comb. n. to Eoophyla (Shibuya 1929).

Description

A large brownish sp. with orange-brown and paler brown banding. The slightly falcate HW has three tornal eyespots. It can be easily separated from E. cocos Mey, 2009 by the FW subapical triangular patch being whitish not brown and the distinctive white subterminal fascia.

Reported from near the Kinabalu N.P. by Fiedler et al. (2004). Illustrated in Wang & Speidel (2000: 62-63, figs).

References

• Guenée, A. (1854) in Boisduval, J. B. A. D. & Guenée, A. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. 8 (Deltoides et Pyralites): 448 + 6 pp., 10 pl. Paris.
  
• Walker, F. (1865 [1866]) List Spec. Lep. Ins. B.M.. 34: pp. i-iv, 1121-1434, London.
• Shibuya, J. (1929) On the Japanese Hydrocampinae. Insecta Matsumurana 3: 120-136, pl. 5.
  
• RTS (1994): p. 168, pl. 28 fig. 15.
• Wang, H. Y. & Speidel, W. (2000) Guide to the Insects in Taiwan. (19) Pyraloidea (Pyralidae, Crambidae). Shu Shin Books, Taipei, Taiwan; 62-3 figs.
  
• Fiedler, K. & Schulze, C. H. (2004) Forest modification affects diversity (but not dynamics) of speciose tropical pyraloid moth communities. Biotropica
• Li, H. H. & Ren Yingdang et. al. (2009) Henan insect fauna Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, 440 pp., Science Press. [in Chinese]
  
• 30(4): 615-627.