Scopula intensata

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Scopula intensata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. intensata
Binomial name
Scopula intensata
(Moore, 1887) [1]
Synonyms
  • Idaea intensataMoore, 1887
  • Scopula ochriataProut, 1938

Scopula intensata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka. [2]

Description

Wingspan is 24mm. Male is whitish irrorated with fuscous color. Frons fuscous. Fore wings with brown costa and an oblique antemedial line from cell to inner margin. Medial and postmedial oblique waved line present. Medial line not reaching costa. There are two submarginal and a marginal line. Hind wings with antemedial, postmedial, two submarginal and a marginal line. Female much suffused with fuscous. Fore wings with antemedial line angled in cell and continued to the costa. Both wings with cell-specks. Hind wings with sub-basal line.

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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. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Scopula intensata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.