Comostola pyrrhogona

Comostola pyrrhogona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Hemitheini
Genus: Comostola
Species: C. pyrrhogona
Binomial name
Comostola pyrrhogona
(Walker, 1866)
Synonyms
  • Eucrostis pyrrhogona Walker, 1866
  • Jodis marginata Lucas, 1895
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta Warren, 1896
  • Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona augustata Prout, 1917
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta callicrossa Prout, 1934
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta pisochlora Prout, 1934
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta woodfordi Prout, 1934
  • Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona succornuta Prout, 1937
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta exquisitata Fletcher, 1957
  • Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona subcrenulata Holloway, 1977

Comostola pyrrhogona is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics from India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan, and east to Vanuatu, New Caledonia, northern Australia and Norfolk Island.

Description

The wingspan is about 15-18mm. Hind wings with veins 3,4 stalked. Antennae of male bipectinated to two-thirds length. Palpi with second and third joints long and slender. Fore wings with straight discocellulars. Veins 3,4 and 6 to 11 stalked. Female pale bluish. Head rufous. A rufous dorsal stripe found on vertex of thorax and abdomen. Fore wings with costa, and both wings with the outer margin are orange reddish , with black scales and spots irrorated with silver. Ventral side whitish.[1] Male genitalia include: a slender spine enfolded in the sacculus.[2]

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.
  2. ↑ "Comostola pyrrhogona Walker comb. n.". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
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