Glaucoclystis polyclealis

Glaucoclystis polyclealis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Glaucoclystis
Species: G. polyclealis
Binomial name
Glaucoclystis polyclealis
(Walker, 1859)[1]
Synonyms
  • Botys polyclealis Walker, 1859
  • Gymnoscelis polyclealis

Glaucoclystis polyclealis is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka and on Borneo, Java and Bali.[2]

Description

Wingspan is about 22mm. Hind tibia with a very a very minute medial spur pairs. Body fuscous brown with a slight purplish tinge. Palpi and frons jet-black. Fore wings with broad medial area defined by waved black lines, edged with grey, the outer line produced to an angle at vein 4. There is an indistinct curved submarginal line. Hind wings with traces of sub-basal and medial lines. A postmedial waved line excurved from vein 2 and 4, and with whitish patches on its outer edge below veins 6 and 2. A waved white submarginal line with whitish patch on 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. The Moths of Borneo
  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.
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