Manulea complana, the scarce footman, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

It is very like Eilema morosinum (Herrich-Schäffer, [1847]) but the forewing not so elongate, and the angles not so accentuated, the costal streak broader and brighter yellow, the hindwing duller, not so transparent; the apex of the abdomen brighter yellow.

On the underside the disc is very blackish iron grey, and contrasts vividly with the orange-yellow costa and the broad pale yellow marginal area.

The larvae feed on lichen and mosses, but also leaves of low growing plants on occasion.