Collix hypospilata

Collix hypospilata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Collix
Species:	C. hypospilata
Binomial name
	Collix hypospilata; Guenée, 1857[1]
Synonyms
	Phibalapteryx hypospilata Guenée, 1857;

Collix hypospilata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.^[2]

Description

Its wingspan is about 40 millimetres (1.6 in). Palpi with the second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Mid tibia of male very much dilated and with a deep groove. Abdomen long, with a large anal tuft. The male is dark fuscous with a slight purplish tinge. Wings with numerous indistinct waved black lines. Forewings with a prominent discocellulars boss of raised scales. The veins speckled with pale brown between waved lines. Hindwings with small discocellular spots. Both wings with submarginal series of pale brown specks and a black marginal line interrupted by pale specks at the vein. Ventral side fuscous brown. Both wings with very prominent black cell-spot, less prominent curved postmedial band. There is a prominent submarginal black spot series. A spot found between vein 3 and 4 absent.^[3]

Female often with brownish ground color or with brown patches in the cell of forewings and forming an obscure postmedial band to both wings.^[4]

References

↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki (1997–2012). "Collix hypospilata Guenee 1857". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Collix hypospilata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
↑ "A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea" (PDF). Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology. July 2011. pp. 164–166. doi:10.5635/KJSZ.2011.27.2.164. ISSN 2233-7687.

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[1] Yu, Dicky Sick Ki (1997–2012). "Collix hypospilata Guenee 1857". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Retrieved July 25, 2018.

[2] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Collix hypospilata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

[4] "A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea" (PDF). Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology. July 2011. pp. 164–166. doi:10.5635/KJSZ.2011.27.2.164. ISSN 2233-7687.