Somatina omicraria

Somatina omicraria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Somatina
Species: S. omicraria
Binomial name
Somatina omicraria
(Fabricius, 1798)[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena omicraria Fabricius, 1798
  • Somatina cana Hampson, 1895
  • Ephyra extrusata Walker, 1861

Somatina omicraria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in India[2] and Sri Lanka.

Description

Wingspan is about 30mm. Antennae of male with fascicles of cilia. White colored moth with fuscous frons. Wings irrorated with a few fuscous scales. Fore wings with traces of a waved antemedial line. A large irregular rufous and fuscous ocellelus at end of cell, with a ring of bluish-silver scales on it. Hind wings with a fulvous and silver line on discocellulars. Both wings with a curved and slightly sinous postmedial black specks series, with a series of fuscous spots, beyond series of black striae.[3]

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. LepIndex
  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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