Collix hypospilata
| Collix hypospilata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Collix |
| Species: | C. hypospilata |
| Binomial name | |
| Collix hypospilata Guenée, 1857[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Collix hypospilata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by Guenée in 1857. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.[2]
Description
Wingspan is about 40 millimetres (1.6 in). Palpi with the second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Mid tibia of male very much dilated and with a deep groove. Abdomen long, with a large anal tuft. Male has dark fuscous, with a slight purplish tinge. Wings with numerous indistinct waved black lines. Fore wings with a prominent discocellulars boss of raised scales. The veins speckled with pale brown between waved lines. Hind wings with small discocellulars spot. Both wings with submarginal series of pale brown specks and a black marginal line interrupted by pale specks at vein. Ventral side fuscous brown. Both wings with very prominent black cell-spot, less prominent curved postmedial band. There is a prominent submarginal black spots series can be seen. A spot found between vein 3 and 4 absent.[3]
Female often with brownish ground color or with brown patches in the cell of fore wings and forming an obscure postmedial band to both wings.[4]
References
- ↑ "Home of Ichneumonoidea". Taxapad. Dicky Sick Ki Yu. 1997–2012. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ↑ LepIndex
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii. Digital Library of India. p. 558.
- ↑ "A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea" (PDF). Korean J. Syst. Zool. July 2011. pp. 164–166. ISSN 2233-7687. doi:10.5635/KJSZ.2011.27.2.164.