| Somatina purpurascens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Somatina |
| Species: | S. purpurascens |
| Binomial name | |
| Somatina purpurascens | |
Somatina purpurascens is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Frederic Moore in 1887. It is found in Sri Lanka. [2]
The wingspan is about 34 mm in the male and 36 mm in the female. The antennae of the male are finely ciliated. Hindleg of male small. Tibia dilated with a fold and large tuft of long hair. It is a whitish moth with slight rufous and fuscous suffusion. Head blackish. Forewings with rusty costa. A medial sinuous line present, which is angled below costa, with another line beyond it produced to points beyond the angles of cell and approaching the medial line below the cell, the area between them usually tinged with rufous and with a cell-spot. There is a sub-marginal waved line produced to a point below costa, then usually obsolescent, the area beyond it rufous as far as the marginal rufous band of triangular marks, which does not extend to the costa. Hindwings with cell-speck and traces of waved medial and postmedial line. The outer area fuscous, with marginal series of triangular rufous marks. [3]
Dordura is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1882. Its only species, Dordura aliena, was first described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and New Guinea.
Eudocima hypermnestra is a moth of the family Erebidae described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is found in China, Thailand, Taiwan, India and Sri Lanka.
Scopula divisaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka to Taiwan and Sulawesi.
Chiasmia emersaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in India, Nepal, northern Thailand, China, Sri Lanka, Japan and the Ryukyu Islands.
Eucyclodes gavissima, the Oriental orange banded green geometer moth, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, western China, Taiwan, Sumatra and Borneo.
Semiothisa eleonora is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in south-west Asia, including India, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.
Glaucoclystis immixtaria is a moth of the family Geometridae described by Francis Walker in 1862. It is known only from Sri Lanka, the Chagos Archipelago, Queensland and Fiji. It could prove to be more widely distributed, with populations in more seasonally dry habitats such as Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Mnesiloba dentifascia is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by George Hampson in 1891. It is known from the Oriental tropics.
Ischyja manlia is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1776. It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Okinawa, Sundaland, Sulawesi, Korea, the southern Moluccas, Australia (Queensland) and Palau. Adults pierce the skin of fruit to suck the juice.
Hyperythra lutea is a moth in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in Indian subregion, Sri Lanka, South East Asia, Sundaland.
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 modesta is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka and India.
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.
Somatina omicraria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Problepsis deliaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Ziridava xylinaria, the indistinct carpet, is a moth in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong and on Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java and possibly the Philippines and Sulawesi.
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.
Gymnoscelis ectochloros is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by George Hampson in 1891. It is found in India and Sri Lanka according to Hampson.
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