Hyperythra lutea

Hyperythra lutea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Hyperythra
Species: H. lutea
Binomial name
Hyperythra lutea
Stoll, 1781[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena lutea Stoll, 1787
  • Phalaena flavaria Fabricius, 1787
  • Phalaena flavata Fabricius, 1794
  • Hyperythra ennomaria Guenée, 1857
  • Hyperythra limbolaria Guenée, 1857
  • Hyperythra luteata Guenée, 1857
  • Hyperythra penicillaria Guenée, 1857
  • Hyperythra rufifimbria Warren, 1896

Hyperythra lutea is a member of moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Indian Subregion, Sri Lanka, South East Asia, Sundaland.[1]

Description

Wingspan of male is 36mm. Males with costa of hind wings highly arched. A very long tuft of hair found from base of cell lying in a fold above vein 6. The cell very short and open. Male yellowish, suffused with pink and striated with fuscous. Some white found on palpi and shaft of antennae. Fore wings with indistinct antemedial line angled below costa. Medial and postmedial ill-defined, slightly curved pinkish bands. Hind wings with similar narrow antemedial and broad postmedial bands, the latter with one or two black marks on it below costa. Underside bright yellowish, with area beyond the postmedial line more or less completely colored pink. Fore wings with a whitish patch below apex. The pink suffusion of upper and underside varies greatly in extent.[2]

Wingspan of female is 38-46mm. Female much brighter yellow with three lines to fore wing and two to hind wing replacing the bands and usually prominent. Head and body of larva are finely granulate. Body cylindrical, and pale greyish with black rims. The larvae feed on Gouania species.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Hyperythra lutea on mothsofborneo.com
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Hyperythra lutea Stoll". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 8 September 2016.


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