Agathia hemithearia
| Agathia hemithearia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Geometrini |
| Genus: | Agathia |
| Species: | A. hemithearia |
| Binomial name | |
| Agathia hemithearia Guenée, 1857[1] | |
Agathia hemithearia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, China (Hainan), Taiwan[2] and Thailand.[3]
Description
Wingspan is about 36mm. Markings are rufous. Thorax and abdomen more heavily marked. Fore wings with a medial band of regular width, and angled on median nervure. Both wings with rufous outer area irrorated with fuscous, with a waved postmedial grey line enclosing some conjoined sub-marginal green patches below apex of each wing and near inner margin of hind wings. Green area sending a prominent tooth in to the rufous area at vein 5 and below vein 2 of each wing. The ocellus reduced to a pale line across the tail. Ventral side with purplish fuscous markings.[4]
References
- ↑ Bisby F.A.; Roskov Y.R.; Orrell T.M.; Nicolson D.; Paglinawan L.E.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.M.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Ouvrard D. (2011). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ Moths of Japan
- ↑ BOLD Systems
- ↑ 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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