Scopula modicaria

Scopula modicaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. modicaria
Binomial name
Scopula modicaria
(Leech, 1897)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia modicaria Leech, 1897
  • Acidalia virginaria Imaidzumi, 1941

Scopula modicaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in China,[2] the Russian Far East,[3] Korea[4] and Japan.

The wingspan is 19–30 mm.[5]

References

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  1. Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
  2. LepIndex
  3. Sterrhinae (Geometridae) collection of Siberian Zoological Museum
  4. Five unrecorded species of Geometridae from Korea (Lepidoptera), with notes on eight little known species
  5. Japanese Moths


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