Scopula opicata
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. opicata |
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| Scopula opicata (Fabricius, 1798)[1] | |
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Scopula opicata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in tropical Africa, including Malawi and Zambia,[2] as well as in Sri Lanka, India, China (Hainan), Burma, Sundaland, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Timor and New Guinea.[3]
Description
Wingspan is 20 millimetres (0.79 in). White moth with slightly irrorated with brown. Frons blackish. Abdomen with brown rings. Fore wings with prominent oblique brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin near base. Another line runs from apex to middle of inner margin. Three submarginal lines diverging from the apex, of which the outer two are slightly waved. A marginal line present. Hind wings with sub-basal, antemedial, and medial prominent lines. Two waved postmedial lines and a marginal line present.[4]
References
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- ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
- ↑ Afro Moths
- ↑ "Scopula opicata Fabricius". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths". Digital Library of India. p. 558.