Hemijana griseola Rothschild, 1917 syn. nov.

Fig. 36

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

Hemijana griseola – 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 [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.