Scopula roezaria

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Scopula roezaria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. roezaria
Binomial name
Scopula roezaria
(C. Swinhoe, 1904) [1]
Synonyms
  • Emmiltis roezariaC. Swinhoe, 1904

Scopula roezaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found on Madagascar. [2]

This species has a wingspan of 20 millimetres (0.79 in). Frons and palpi are chestnut red. The top of the head is white with a chestnut band behind. Body and wings are white, a costal line of the forewings is chestnut-red. A dentated grey discal line with black points across both wings, an indistinct submarginal line and black marginal points. The underside of both wings is white the forewings with the red costal line and some red suffusion on the costal space, discal line red and marginal line of both wings red. [3]

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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. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Scopula roezaria (Swinhoe, 1904)". Afromoths. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ Swinhoe, C. (1904). "On the Geometridae of tropical Africa in the National Collection". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1904 (3): 557.


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