Mnesiloba dentifascia

Mnesiloba dentifascia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Mnesiloba
Species:	M. dentifascia
Binomial name
Mnesiloba dentifascia (Hampson, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
Eupithecia dentifascia Hampson, 1891 Mnesiloba seminigra Bastelberger, 1905

Mnesiloba dentifascia is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is known from the Oriental tropics.^[2][3]

Description

Wingspan is about 20mm. Palpi with second joint reaching only just beyond the frontal tuft. Fore wings usually with a tuft of raised scales on discocellulars. Body dark brown, with black irrorations and fuscous suffusion. Fore wings with oblque, sub-basal, and antemedial lines angled below costa. The medial area blackish, with black cell-speck and edged by oblique black lines, where the outer highly dentate below veins 3 and 2. There is an indistinct waved postmedial line and waved grey sub-marginal line. Patches of fuscous suffusion found on margin below apex and above outer angle. Hind wings with indistinct dark antemedial, medial, postmedial and submarginal lines, becoming obsolescent on costal area, which is pale.^[4]

References

1. "Home of Ichneumonoidea". Taxapad. Dicky Sick Ki Yu. 1997–2012. Retrieved 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
2. "Mnesiloba dentifascia Hampson stat. rev.". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
3. "此為 Mnesiloba dentifascia". Taiwan moths. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
4. 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.