Scopula deflavarioides

Scopula deflavarioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. deflavarioides
Binomial name
Scopula deflavarioides
Holloway, 1997[1]

Scopula deflavarioides is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found on Borneo.[2] The habitat consists of wet heath forest and hill dipterocarp forest.

The length of the forewings is 8–9 mm. Adults have a yellowish fawn ground colour with a fine, rather wavy fasciation.

References

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  1. Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
  2. The Moths of Borneo


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