Epipristis minimaria
| Epipristis minimaria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Epipristis |
| Species: | E. minimaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Epipristis minimaria (Guenée, [1858])[1] | |
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Epipristis minimaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in China (Hainan, Yunnan), India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Description
The length of the forewings is 11–20 mm for males and about 26 mm for females. Antennae of male almost simple. Wings with crenulate margins. Hind tibia of male dilated. The wings are greyish white, diffused with red-brown, grey-brown and black-brown scales. Fore wings with antemedial line more regularly waved. Outer area with pinkish beyond as well as before the submarginal line.[2] The outer margin of both wings is wavy.[3]
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- ↑ Pitkin, Linda M. ; Hongxiang Han & Shayleen James, 2007, Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 343-412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Han, H.; Expósito H., A.; Xue, D. 2009: A taxonomic study of Epipristis Meyrick, 1888 from China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae). Zootaxa, 2263: 31-41. Abstract & excerpt PDF
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