Scopula adeptaria
| Scopula adeptaria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. adeptaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula adeptaria (Walker, 1861)[1] | |
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Scopula adeptaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, Hainan, southern Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, the Philippines, Sumba and northern Australia.[2]
Description
Wingspan is 16mm. Male whitish irrorated with brown. Frons blackish. Fore wings with indistinct sinous antemedial fuscous line excurved above median nervure. Both wings with cell-speck. A medial oblique line excurved round cell of fore wings. Sinous postmedial and submarginal lines present along with a marginal specks series. Female more suffused with fuscous. The submarginal dark line of the wing with white on its outer edge.[3]
Subspecies
- Scopula adeptaria adeptaria
- Scopula adeptaria tenuipes (Turner, 1914) (Australia)
References
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- ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
- ↑ The Moths of Borneo
- ↑ 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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