Scopula pedilata
| Scopula pedilata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. pedilata |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula pedilata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)[1] | |
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Scopula pedilata is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]
Description
Wingspan is about 22m. White moth with fuscous palpi. Fore wings irrorated with a few black scales and with two minute cell-specks. There are traces of a medial line angled below the costa. The postmedial line running out to two angles below costa and one on vein 3. A rufous brown band found beyond it with waved outer edge and terminating in a black patch. Traces of a pale submarginal rufous line. Hind wings with slightly waved antemedial line. Black cell-speck present. Postmedial slightly sinous line, with pale rufous band beyond it. A crenualte marginal line.[3]
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- ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
- ↑ LepIndex
- ↑ 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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