Scopula pedilata

Scopula pedilata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. pedilata
Binomial name
Scopula pedilata
(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia pedilata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875

Scopula pedilata is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

Description

Wingspan is about 22m. White moth with fuscous palpi. Fore wings irrorated with a few black scales and with two minute cell-specks. There are traces of a medial line angled below the costa. The postmedial line running out to two angles below costa and one on vein 3. A rufous brown band found beyond it with waved outer edge and terminating in a black patch. Traces of a pale submarginal rufous line. Hind wings with slightly waved antemedial line. Black cell-speck present. Postmedial slightly sinous line, with pale rufous band beyond it. A crenualte marginal line.[3]

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. LepIndex
  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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