Scopula mollicula

Scopula mollicula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. mollicula
Binomial name
Scopula mollicula
Prout, 1932[1]

Scopula mollicula is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found on Madagascar.[2]

This species is similar to Scopula caducaria (Swinhoe, 1904) in size, shape and coloration but less glossy. Both wings bear a strong cell-dot, median and postmedian lines of the forewings are placed more distally than in S.caducaria.[3]

References

Wikispecies has information related to: Scopula mollicula
  1. Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Prout, L. B. 1932c. New genera and species of Sterrhinae (Fam. Geometridae). - Novitates Zoologicae 37:229–251 - on page 242


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