Scopula fibulata

Scopula fibulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. fibulata
Binomial name
Scopula fibulata
(Guenée, [1858])[1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia fibulata Guenee, 1858

Scopula fibulata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Kenya,[2] Sri Lanka[3] and China.

Description

Wingspan is about 26-28mm. Grey colored moth thickly irrorated with fuscous. Frons black. Fore wings with dentate antemedial, medial, and postmedial dark lines with olive edges, the medial line excurved round a black olive-edged cell-speck, and the postmedial with a larger dentition at vein 6. A crenulate pale of white submarginal line found expanding at middle and above inner margin into patches, which may be white and prominent or obscure. Hind wings with black cell-speck. There is a waved medial line. A dentate postmedial line. A pale crenulate submarginal line, sometimes expanding into pale patches above middle and above inner margin.[4]

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. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ LepIndex
  4. ↑ 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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