Scopula adeptaria

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Scopula adeptaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. adeptaria
Binomial name
Scopula adeptaria
(Walker, 1861) [1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia adeptariaWalker, 1861
  • Craspedia eximiaWarren, 1898
  • Acidalia tenuipesTurner, 1914
  • Ptychopoda tainanensisWileman & South, 1917

Scopula adeptaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, Hainan, southern Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, the Philippines, Sumba and northern Australia. [2]

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Description

The wingspan is 16 millimetres (0.63 in). The males are whitish irrorated (sprinkled) with brown. Frons blackish. Forewings with indistinct sinuous antemedial fuscous line excurved above median nervure. Both wings with cell-speck. A medial oblique line excurved round cell of forewings. Sinuous postmedial and submarginal lines present along with a marginal specks series. Female more suffused with fuscous. The submarginal dark line of the wing with white on its outer edge. [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. ↑ Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x .
  2. ↑ The Moths of Borneo
  3. ↑ 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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