Gymnoscelis roseifascia
| Gymnoscelis roseifascia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Gymnoscelis |
| Species: | G. roseifascia |
| Binomial name | |
| Gymnoscelis roseifascia (Hampson, 1893)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gymnoscelis roseifascia is a moth in the Geometridae family. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.[2]
Description
Wingspan is about 20 millimetres (0.79 in). In male, head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green, with slightly marked black color. Fore wings with green basal half, mostly suffused with black in the form of diffused sub-basal and antemedial bands. Medial area is pale pinkish with two faint waved lines on it and bounded by a waved fuscous and grey line. The postmedial area green. A fuscous and grey waved submarginal line, and the area beyond it pinkish with a pale spot at middle. Hind wings similar. The pink area extending to the base and with a minute discocellular speck. The pale spot small. Ventral side fuscous, with curved postmedial line.[3]
References
- ↑ "Home of Ichneumonoidea". Taxapad. Dicky Sick Ki Yu. 1997–2012. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ↑ LepIndex
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558.
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