Scopula adeptaria
| Scopula adeptaria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. adeptaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula adeptaria (Walker, 1861)[1] | |
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Scopula adeptaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Walker in 1861. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, Hainan, southern Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, the Philippines, Sumba and northern Australia.[2]
Description
Wingspan is 16 millimetres (0.63 in). Male whitish irrorated with brown. Frons blackish. Fore wings with indistinct sinous antemedial fuscous line excurved above median nervure. Both wings with cell-speck. A medial oblique line excurved round cell of fore wings. Sinous postmedial and submarginal lines present along with a marginal specks series. Female more suffused with fuscous. The submarginal dark line of the wing with white on its outer edge.[3]
Subspecies
- Scopula adeptaria adeptaria
- Scopula adeptaria tenuipes (Turner, 1914) (Australia)
References
- ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
- ↑ The Moths of Borneo
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India: 558.
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