Comostola

Comostola
Comostola laesaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Tribe:	Hemitheini
Genus:	Comostola Meyrick, 1888
Synonyms
PyrrhorachisWarren, 1896 LeucodesmiaWarren, 1899 (preocc. Howard, 1895) ChloeresTurner, 1910

Comostola is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1888. They are found primarily in Asia and Australia. ^[1]

Species

• Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917 New Guinea, Queensland, southern Moluccas, Sulawesi, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia
• Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861) India, Andamans, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi
• Comostola christinaria Han & Xue, 2009
• Comostola citrolimbaria (Guenée, 1857) Australia
• Comostola conchylias Meyrick, 1889 New Guinea
• Comibaena dispansa Walker, 1861 India
• Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861) Borneo, Philippines, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, north-eastern Himalayas
• Comostola enodata Holloway, 1996 Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Sulawesi, New Guinea
• Comostola haplophanes Turner, 1910 Australia
• Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004 Kumaon ^[2]
• Comostola hypotyphla Prout, 1917 India
• Comostola inops Prout, 1912 India
• Comostola iodioides (Lucas, 1891) Australia
• Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861) Sri Lanka, India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Sundaland, northern Australia, Bismarck Archipelago
• Comostola leucomerata (Walker, 1866) Australia
• Comostola maculata (Moore, 1867) India
• Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861) Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Sumatra, Borneo,
• Comostola minutata (Druce, 1888) Solomons, Bismarck Archipelago
• Comostola mundata Warren, 1896 India
• Comostola nereidaria (Snellen, 1881) Sulawesi, Borneo, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
• Comostola ocellulata Prout, 1920
• Comostola orestias Prout, 1934 Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia
• Comostola ovifera (Warren, 1893) India
• Comostola prasochroa (Turner, 1931) Australia
• Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866) India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, northern Australia, Norfolk Island
• Comostola quantula (Swinhoe, 1886)
• Comostola rhodometopa (Prout, 1913)
• Comostola rhodoselas (Prout, 1928) Samoa, Fiji
• Comostola satoi Inoue, 1986
• Comostola simplex (Warren, 1899) Java
• Comostola stueningi Tautel & Barrion-Dupo, 2017
• Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864) south-eastern Siberia, Korea, north-eastern Himalayas, southern China
• Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917) north-eastern Himalayas, Sundaland, Sulawesi
• Comostola virago Prout, 1926 India
• Comostola viridula (Warren, 1903)

References

1. Eric Tentarelli (2012). A Guide to Insects. Blackwell. p. 559.
2. Irungbam, Jatishwor (2015). "A new range record of Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004". Journal of Threatened Taxa. Retrieved 21 July 2018.

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