Axinoptera subcostalis

Axinoptera subcostalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Axinoptera
Species:	A. subcostalis
Binomial name
	Axinoptera subcostalis; Hampson, 1893
Synonyms
	Chloroclystis subcostalis;

Last updated February 19, 2024

Axinoptera subcostalis is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was first described by George Hampson in 1893 and is found in Sri Lanka.^[2]

Description

The wingspan is about 20 mm. Male with a tuft of black hair on hind tibia just before the terminal spurs. Forewings with bent costa upwards and highly angled close to the base, a fold on upperside from the angle of costa to near apex, containing rough rufous scales. Vein 7 from the angle of cell, which is short, where the posterior wall of areole being absent. Adults are olive brown, the wings slightly irrorated (sprinkled) with black and with traces of numerous waved lines. Palpi black. Metathorax and abdomen with black markings. Forewings with black at base of costa. A dentate black antemedial line can be seen. A prominent postmedial line angled at vein 4, and with black streaks beyond it inside the waved grey submarginal line. The sub-costal fold found in male, which is bright rufous. Hindwings suffused with rufous to the prominent curved slightly sinuous black postmedial line. A diffused waved black submarginal line found with white spot beyond it at middle.^[3]

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References

↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Axinoptera subcostalis Hampson 1893". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on July 25, 2018. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
↑ Galsworthy, A.C. (1999). "New and revised eupitheciine species (Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Hong Kong and South East Asia". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 50 (3): 223-234.
↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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[1] Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Axinoptera subcostalis Hampson 1893". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on July 25, 2018. Retrieved July 24, 2018.

[2] Galsworthy, A.C. (1999). "New and revised eupitheciine species (Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Hong Kong and South East Asia". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 50 (3): 223-234.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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