Scopula pulchellata

Scopula pulchellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. pulchellata
Binomial name
Scopula pulchellata
(Fabricius, 1794)[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena pulchellata Fabricius, 1794
  • Craspedia discata Warren, 1897
  • Idaea grandicularia Swinhoe, 1886
  • Acidalia ligataria Walker, 1861
  • Acidalia metaspilaria Walker, 1861
  • Acidalia nictata Guenée, 1857
  • Acidalia perlineata Walker, 1861
  • Scopula perlineata obdiscata Prout, 1938
  • Scopula perlineata spilotis Prout, 1938
  • Acidalia spatiosaria Walker, 1866
  • Craspedia spilodorsata Warren, 1895
  • Scopula spilodorsata cosmeta Prout, 1938
  • Craspedia rufinubes Warren, 1900

Scopula pulchellata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, from India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan and the Solomon Islands,[2] as well as in Africa.

Description

Wingspan is about 24mm. Hind wings with more or less angled outer margin at vein 4. Ochreous white colored moth. Frons fuscous. Fore wings with a discocellular speck. Indistinct obliquely waved fuscous antemedial and medial lines, the latter on hind wing embracing the black discocellular spot. Both wings with waved postmedial line, with fuscous marks beyond it above middle of fore wings and above inner margin of each wing. There is a sub-marginal fuscous marks series and a marginal black specks series.[3]

Subspecies

References

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  1. ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
  2. ↑ The Moths of Borneo
  3. ↑ 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.


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