Scopula divisaria

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Scopula divisaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. divisaria
Binomial name
Scopula divisaria
(Walker, 1861) [1]
Synonyms
  • Macaria divisariaWalker, 1861
  • Trygodes divisaria
  • Antitrygodes divisaria

Scopula divisaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka to Taiwan and Sulawesi.

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Description

Its wingspan is about 40 mm. Both wings with highly crenulate outer margin and produced to points at all the veins except vein 5. It is a greyish moth with slightly fuscous irrorations (sprinkles) and a violaceous tinge. Frons blackish. Vertex of head whitish. Forewings with rufous costa. A bright verditer-greenish sub-basal patch found below cell and spot above it in cell and spot above it in cell. There is a quadrate patch found in end of cell another from below it to inner margin, and one beyond cell, a slightly sinuous dark postmedial line terminating at outer angle in a crimson mark. Two large quadrate green sub-apical patches can be seen. Hindwings with large quadrate green patch in cell, another below cell extending to inner margin and to near anal angle. a trilobate patch found beyond cell. Outer area purplish, with some red beyond the green patches. A sinuous postmedial medial line terminating in a crimson line at anal angle, A crimson subapical line and spot. Both wings with dark marginal line can be seen. Ventral side is pale, mostly with fuscous suffusion. [2]

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. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis via Biodiversity Heritage Library.