Scopula adeptaria

Scopula adeptaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. adeptaria
Binomial name
Scopula adeptaria
(Walker, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia adeptaria Walker, 1861
  • Craspedia eximia Warren, 1898
  • Acidalia tenuipes Turner, 1914
  • Ptychopoda tainanensis Wileman & South, 1917

Scopula adeptaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, Hainan, southern Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, the Philippines, Sumba and northern Australia.[2]

Description

Wingspan is 16mm. Male whitish irrorated with brown. Frons blackish. Fore wings with indistinct sinous antemedial fuscous line excurved above median nervure. Both wings with cell-speck. A medial oblique line excurved round cell of fore wings. Sinous postmedial and submarginal lines present along with a marginal specks series. Female more suffused with fuscous. The submarginal dark line of the wing with white on its outer edge.[3]

Subspecies

References

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  1. Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
  2. The Moths of Borneo
  3. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.


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