Thalassodes

Thalassodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Geometrinae
Tribe: Hemitheini
Genus: Thalassodes
Guenée, 1857

Thalassodes is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.

Description

Palpi with second joint clothed with hair and reaching the apex of the short frontal tuft. Third joint naked and porrect. Antennae of male usually bipectinated to two-thirds length. Hind tibia usually dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long hair. Fore wings with veins 6,7,8,9,10 stalked or vein 6 from cell. Hind wings with angled or produced outer margin to a point at vein 4.[1]

Species

References

  1. 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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