Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917

Takano, Hitoshi, 2025, Taxonomic revision of Camerunia Aurivillius, 1893 and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae: Janinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 1022, pp. 134-175 : 164

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1022.3085
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F9263916-BFA7-4E2F-ABD1-E4DDFFC280C7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17457117
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CEDB06-FFAF-FF9D-BB27-FCF1246AFE6F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917
status	syn. nov.

Treatment

Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917 View in CoL syn. nov.

Fig. 36

Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917: 490 View in CoL . Type locality: [ South Africa] “Mooi River, Natal”

Hemijana griseola View in CoL – Gaede 1927: 302. — Vári et al. 2002: 150. — Kitching et al. 2018: suppl. material 1. — Krüger 2020: 138.

Poloma nigromaculata – Aurivillius 1893: 210.

Type material

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA • ♂ ( Fig. 36); “ Mooi River , / Natal. // Poloma / nigromacu / lata Aur. / der. M.Gaede [partially handwritten] // NHMUK 014200383 About NHMUK [QR code]”; NHMUK.

Remarks

A single male from the Rothschild collection in NHMUK matching the original description and with the label corresponding to the type locality is likely the (unlabelled) holotype of Hemijana griseola ( Fig. 36). Rothschild’s handwritten determination label appears to have become disassociated from the specimen at some stage and is instead pinned to the holotype of Poloma variegata ( Rothschild, 1917) . This taxon is conspecific with Poloma nigromaculata ( Aurivillius, 1893) as determined by Gaede and is herein synonymised with Aurivillius’s taxon; thus Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917 syn. nov. = Poloma nigromaculata ( Aurivillius, 1893) . See Takano & Morgan (2025) for further figures of this species.