Cleora injectaria
| Cleora injectaria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Boarmiini |
| Genus: | Cleora |
| Species: | C. injectaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Cleora injectaria Walker, 1860 | |
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Cleora injectaria is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in the tropical regions of the Indomalayan and Australasian ecozones, up to Fiji and New Caledonia.
The wingspan is about 36-50 mm.[1] Adults are greyish or pale brown with variable complicated darker markings.[2]
The larvae feed on mangrove vegetation of Rhizophora, Avicennia, Excoecaria and Xylocarpus species.[3]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Cleora injectaria (Walker, 1860)". Butterfly House. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
- ↑ Jeremy Daniel Holloway. "Cleora injectaria". Southdene Sdn. Bhd. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
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