Eupithecia costalis

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Eupithecia costalis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Eupithecia
Species:
E. costalis
Binomial name
Eupithecia costalis
Walker, 1863 [1]
Synonyms
  • Leiocera ferrisparsataHampson, 1893
  • Pena costalis

Eupithecia costalis is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is widespread in the tropical and subtropical lowland regions of east and south-east Asia, from Taiwan to India, Sri Lanka [2] Borneo, [3] to Hong Kong. [4]

Description

Its wingspan is about 22 mm. The palpi have the second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Forewings with no tuft of raised scales on discocellulars. In the female, the body is cinereous white. The palpi, head, collar and forelegs bright rusty. Abdomen with a rusty band on first segment. Forewings with rusty costa. Some fuscous found on sub-costal nervure. A waved sub-basal dark line and double dark-edged pale antemedial and postmedial bands can be seen. Postmedial bands are excurved beyond cell, dentate outwards on veins 6 and 4, and inwards below vein 2. Two irregularly dentate medial lines present. The outer area rusty, turning to brown at the margin. A pale waved submarginal line. Hindwings with four waved lines on basal half. A double dark-edged postmedial pale band incurved beyond cell. Both wings with fine marginal line. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Eupithecia costalis (Walker 1863)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on July 24, 2018. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News (79). Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara: 1–57. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Mironov, V.G.; A.C. Galsworthy & K. Yazaki, 2009: A survey of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) in mainland South East Asia: Part II. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan60 (3): 167-188. Abstract:
  4. ↑ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (1 June 2011). "Eupithecia costalis Walker, 1863". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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