Agathia hemithearia

Agathia hemithearia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Agathia
Species: A. hemithearia
Binomial name
Agathia hemithearia

Agathia hemithearia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, China (Hainan), Taiwan[2] and Thailand.[3]

Description

Its wingspan is about 36 mm. The markings are rufous. The thorax and abdomen are more heavily marked. Forewings with a medial band of regular width, and angled on median nervure. Both wings with rufous outer area irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous, with a waved postmedial grey line enclosing some conjoined sub-marginal green patches below the apex of each wing and near the inner margin of the hindwings. There is a green area sending a prominent tooth in to the rufous area at vein 5 and below vein 2 of each wing. The ocellus is reduced to a pale line across the tail. Ventral side with purplish fuscous markings.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Bisby F.A.; Roskov Y.R.; Orrell T.M.; Nicolson D.; Paglinawan L.E.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.M.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Ouvrard D. (2011). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Moths of Japan
  3. ↑ "Taxonomy Browser: Agathia hemithearia". Barcode of Life Data System. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  4. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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