Scopula emissaria

Scopula emissaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. emissaria
Binomial name
Scopula emissaria
(Walker, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia emissaria Walker, 1861
  • Acidalia defamataria Walker, 1861
  • Lycauges mollis Warren, 1896
  • Lycauges lactea Butler, 1879
  • Lycauges proxima Butler, 1886

Scopula emissaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in India,[2] Sri Lanka, Burma, Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Wallacea and Australia.[3]

Description

Wingspan is about 28mm. Fore wings with produced apex. Ochreous moth irrorated with fuscous, and usually suffused with flesh pink color. Frons dark brown. Vertex of head whitish. Abdomen with dark segmental bands. Fore wings with traces of oblique antemedial line and a discocellular black spot. There is an oblique postmedial more or less prominent diffused band from the angle of the postmedial oblique black specks series, which is recurved to costa. Hind wings with a diffused antemedial band from the discocellular black speck runs to inner margin. Three slightly waved lines found on the upper half of wing, where the first being usually the most prominent. Both wings with marginal black specks series.[4][5]

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
  2. ↑ LepIndex
  3. ↑ Checklist of Hong Kong Fauna
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Scopula emissaria (Walker, 1861)". Butterfly House. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

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