Scopula ferruginea
| Scopula ferruginea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. ferruginea |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula ferruginea (Hampson, 1893)[1] | |
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Scopula ferruginea is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]
Description
Wingspan is about 26mm. White moth with black frons. Thorax and abdomen suffused with rusty color. Wings irrorated with a few black scales. Fore wings suffused with rusty color, which is bright on the medial and basal inner areas. There is an indistinct antemedial line angled below the costa. A black cell-speck. A diffused fuscous postmedial line angled below the costa, then oblique. There is an indistinct rufous submarginal line highly angled at vein 6, and with a black spot at the angle. A sinous white submarginal line present. Hind wings with antemedial blackish line. Cell-speck present. Sinous postmedial rufous line, with a rufous bands beyond it, and a submarginal line.[3]
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- ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
- ↑ LepIndex
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.