Somatina omicraria
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Somatina |
| Species: | S. omicraria |
| Binomial name | |
| Somatina omicraria (Fabricius, 1798)[1] | |
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Somatina omicraria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in India[2] and Sri Lanka.
Description
Wingspan is about 30mm. Antennae of male with fascicles of cilia. White colored moth with fuscous frons. Wings irrorated with a few fuscous scales. Fore wings with traces of a waved antemedial line. A large irregular rufous and fuscous ocellelus at end of cell, with a ring of bluish-silver scales on it. Hind wings with a fulvous and silver line on discocellulars. Both wings with a curved and slightly sinous postmedial black specks series, with a series of fuscous spots, beyond series of black striae.[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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