Scopula fibulata

Scopula fibulata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Kenya,[2] Sri Lanka[3] and China.

Scopula fibulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. fibulata
Binomial name
Scopula fibulata
(Guenée, [1858])[1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia fibulata Guenee, 1858

Description

Wingspan is about 26–28 millimetres (1.0–1.1 in). Grey colored moth thickly irrorated with fuscous. Frons black. Fore wings with dentate antemedial, medial, and postmedial dark lines with olive edges, the medial line excurved round a black olive-edged cell-speck, and the postmedial with a larger dentition at vein 6. A crenulate pale of white submarginal line found expanding at middle and above inner margin into patches, which may be white and prominent or obscure. Hind wings with black cell-speck. There is a waved medial line. A dentate postmedial line. A pale crenulate submarginal line, sometimes expanding into pale patches above middle and above inner margin.[4]

References

  1. Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Scopula fibulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
  4. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths". Digital Library of India. p. 558.


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