Axinoptera subcostalis

Axinoptera subcostalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Axinoptera
Species:	A. subcostalis
Binomial name
Axinoptera subcostalis Hampson, 1893[1]
Synonyms
Chloroclystis subcostalis

Axinoptera subcostalis is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka.^[2]

Description

The wingspan is about 20 mm. Male with a tuft of black hair on hind tibia just before the terminal spurs. Fore wings with bent costa upwards and highly angled close to the base, a fold on upperside from the angle of costa to near apex, containing rough rufous scales. Vein 7 from the angle of cell, which is short, where the posterior wall of areole being absent. Adults are olive-brown, the wings slightly irrorated with black and with traces of numerous waved lines. Palpi black. Metathorax and abdomen with black markings. Fore wings with black at bae of costa. A dentate black antemedial line can be seen. A prominent postmedial line angled at vein 4, and with black streaks beyond it inside the waved grey submarginal line. The sub-costal fold found in male, which is bright rufous in color. Hind wings suffused with rufous to the prominent curved slightly sinous black postmedial line. A diffused waved black submarginal line found with white spot beyond it at middle.^[3]

References

1. "Home of Ichneumonoidea". Taxapad. Dicky Sick Ki Yu. 1997–2012. Retrieved 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
2. Galsworthy, A.C., 1999: New and revised eupitheciine species (Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Hong Kong and South East Asia. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 50(3): 223-234. Abstract and full article: .
3. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.