| Scopula modesta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. modesta |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula modesta | |
| Synonyms | |
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Scopula modesta is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka and India. [2]
Its wingspan is about 30 mm. Hindwings with more or less angled outer margin at vein 4. Body whitish suffused with brownish fuscous. Forewings with almost straight oblique antemedial line. Both wings with oblique straight medial line with an indistinct diffused fuscous cell-spot inside it on forewings and prominent brown cell-speck beyond it on hindwings. A nearly straight postmedial line, the area beyond it more suffused with brownish fuscous, sometimes with pale sub-marginal patches. [3]
Logania watsoniana, or Watson's mottle, is a small but striking butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues. The species was first described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1898.
Scopula nigropunctata, the sub-angled wave, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found through most of the Palearctic realm.
Ophiusa trapezium is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Queensland, the Bismarck Islands and New Caledonia. Adults are fruit piercers.
Scopula divisaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka to Taiwan and Sulawesi.
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.
Scopula costata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Scopula emissaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Wallacea and Australia.
Scopula ferruginea is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Scopula intensata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Scopula pedilata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Scopula pulchellata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, from India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan and the Solomon Islands, as well as in Africa.
Scopula walkeri is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found on Sri Lanka.
Somatina purpurascens is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Frederic Moore in 1887. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Gymnoscelis deleta is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and probably in Sri Lanka according to Hampson.
Pseudojana pallidipennis is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1895. It is found in Myanmar and the north-eastern Himalayas.
Antaeotricha demotica is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero) and Guatemala.
Antaeotricha hemiscia is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Guatemala.
Antaeotricha prosora is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Panama.
Antaeotricha praerupta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana.
Tanycnema is a monotypic moth genus of the family Tineodidae or false plume moths. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1922. Turner described the genus in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, writing:
Gen. Tanycnema, nov.
Frons with a strong anterior tuft of hairs. Tongue present. Palpi rather long, porrect. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Antennae short. Legs long, slender; outer tibial spurs about 3/4 length of inner spurs. Forewings narrow, elongate; 2 from well before angle, 3 from angle, 4 and 5 somewhat approximate at origin, 6 from upper angle, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 arising slightly before 10, 11 free. Hindwings twice as broad as forewings; 2 from 3/4, 3 from angle, 4 and 5 somewhat approximate at origin, 6 well separated at origin from 5, still more widely from 7, 7 from upper angle, closely approximated to 12 for some distance, but not anastomosing.
A peculiar, isolated, and primitive genus. The wide separation of 6 from 7 of the hindwings, and the absence of any anastomosis of 7 with 12 are primitive characters; on the other hand the relative approximation of 5 to 4 in the hindwings, and the stalking of 7 and 10 of the forewings are specialised characters, the former being unique in this family, to which the genus must, I think, be referred, though the absence of maxillary palpi, suggests some relationship to the Pterophoridae, but this may be more apparent than real.
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