Cleora injectaria

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Cleora injectaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Cleora
Species:
C. injectaria
Binomial name
Cleora injectaria
Walker, 1860
Synonyms
  • Boarmia injectaria

Cleora injectaria is a moth of the family Geometridae described by Francis Walker in 1860. It is found in the tropical regions of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, up to Fiji and New Caledonia.

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Description

The wingspan is about 36–50 mm. [1] Adults are greyish or pale brown with variable complicated darker markings, with about nine color morphs. [2] It is known that there are about nine different color morphs in the C. alienaria complex - with the black and white banded forms, more abundant than grey, brown and white forms, plain forms and black discal spot forms. [3]

The larvae feed on mangrove vegetation of Rhizophora , Avicennia , Excoecaria and Xylocarpus species. [4]

Color morphs

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References

  1. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (15 November 2012). "Cleora injectaria (Walker, 1860)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. "Polymorphism and populations: Cleora injectaria (Walker, 1860) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) at Mai Po Nature Reserve, Hong Kong". HKU Biodiversity and Ecology. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  4. Jeremy Daniel Holloway. "Cleora injectaria". Southdene Sdn. Bhd. Retrieved 2008-12-05.