Scopula pulchellata

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Scopula pulchellata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. pulchellata
Binomial name
Scopula pulchellata
(Fabricius, 1794) [1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena pulchellataFabricius, 1794
  • Craspedia discataWarren, 1897
  • Idaea grandiculariaSwinhoe, 1886
  • Acidalia ligatariaWalker, 1861
  • Acidalia metaspilariaWalker, 1861
  • Acidalia nictataGuenée, 1857
  • Acidalia perlineataWalker, 1861
  • Scopula perlineata obdiscataProut, 1938
  • Scopula perlineata spilotisProut, 1938
  • Acidalia spatiosariaWalker, 1866
  • Craspedia spilodorsataWarren, 1895
  • Scopula spilodorsata cosmetaProut, 1938
  • Craspedia rufinubesWarren, 1900

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, [2] as well as in Africa.

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Description

Its wingspan is about 24 mm. Hindwings with more or less angled outer margin at vein 4. ochreous white colored moth. Frons fuscous. Forewings with a discocellular speck. Indistinct obliquely waved fuscous antemedial and medial lines, the latter on hindwing embracing the black discocellular spot. Both wings with waved postmedial line, with fuscous marks beyond it above middle of forewings and above inner margin of each wing. There is a sub-marginal fuscous marks series and a marginal black specks series. [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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