Comostola

Comostola is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1888. They are found primarily in Asia and Australia.[1]

Comostola
Comostola laesaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Hemitheini
Genus: Comostola
Meyrick, 1888
Synonyms
  • Pyrrhorachis Warren, 1896
  • Leucodesmia Warren, 1899 (preocc. Howard, 1895)
  • Chloeres Turner, 1910

Species

  • Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917 New Guinea, Queensland, southern Moluccas, Sulawesi, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia
  • Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861) India, Andamans, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi
  • Comostola christinaria Han & Xue, 2009
  • Comostola citrolimbaria (GuenĂ©e, 1857) Australia
  • Comostola conchylias Meyrick, 1889 New Guinea
  • Comibaena dispansa Walker, 1861 India
  • Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861) Borneo, Philippines, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, north-eastern Himalayas
  • Comostola enodata Holloway, 1996 Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Sulawesi, New Guinea
  • Comostola haplophanes Turner, 1910 Australia
  • Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004 Kumaon[2]
  • Comostola hypotyphla Prout, 1917 India
  • Comostola inops Prout, 1912 India
  • Comostola iodioides (Lucas, 1891) Australia
  • Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861) Sri Lanka, India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Sundaland, northern Australia, Bismarck Archipelago
  • Comostola leucomerata (Walker, 1866) Australia
  • Comostola maculata (Moore, 1867) India
  • Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861) Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Sumatra, Borneo,
  • Comostola minutata (Druce, 1888) Solomons, Bismarck Archipelago
  • Comostola mundata Warren, 1896 India
  • Comostola nereidaria (Snellen, 1881) Sulawesi, Borneo, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
  • Comostola ocellulata Prout, 1920
  • Comostola orestias Prout, 1934 Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia
  • Comostola ovifera (Warren, 1893) India
  • Comostola prasochroa (Turner, 1931) Australia
  • Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866) India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, northern Australia, Norfolk Island
  • Comostola rhodoselas (Prout) Samoa, Fiji
  • Comostola satoi Inoue, 1986
  • Comostola simplex (Warren) Java
  • Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864) south-eastern Siberia, Korea, north-eastern Himalayas, southern China
  • Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917) north-eastern Himalayas, Sundaland, Sulawesi
  • Comostola virago Prout, 1926 India

References

  1. Eric Tentarelli (2012). A Guide to Insects. Blackwell. p. 559.
  2. Irungbam, Jatishwor (2015). "A new range record of Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004". Journal of Threatened Taxa. Retrieved 21 July 2018.


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