Aporandria specularia

Aporandria specularia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Geometridae
Genus:Aporandria
Species: A. specularia
Binomial name
Aporandria specularia
(Guenée, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Geometra specularia Guenée, 1857
  • Aporandria specularia haplograpta Prout, 1922

Aporandria specularia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, Thailand, the Andamans, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, the Philippines and Sulawesi.

Description

The wingspan of the male is about 54 mm and the female 60 mm. It is pea green. Palpi and frons chocolate colored. Vertex of the head white. Forewings with a dark speck at end of cell. Hindwings with yellow-green base. A large lunulate pinkish mark with brown edges and a black speck on it at end of cell, extending towards costa and inner margin as an indistinct band. Both wings with traces of waved postmedial line. Ventral side of palpi, thorax and base of wings silvery white.[1]

Larva slender, with green body. Head strongly bifid (cleft). True legs are pale purplish red with darker spots. Early instars are dark yellow. It shows a twig-like posture when at rest. Eggs are thick, elongate-oval disc-shaped. Larvae have been recorded on Mangifera, Terminalia, Eugenia, Areca, Rhizophora and Nephelium species.[2]

It is a lowland species inhabited in both forested and disturbed or cultivated areas.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. ↑ "Aporandria specularia Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Aporandria specularia Guenee". Moths of Japan. Retrieved 5 October 2016.


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