Collix hypospilata

Collix hypospilata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Collix
Species: C. hypospilata
Binomial name
Collix hypospilata
Guenée, 1857[1]
Synonyms
  • Phibalapteryx hypospilata Guenée, 1857

Collix hypospilata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

Description

Wingspan is about 40mm. Palpi with the second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Mid tibia of male very much dilated and with a deep groove. Abdomen long, with a large anal tuft. Male has dark fuscous, with a slight purplish tinge. Wings with numerous indistinct waved black lines. Fore wings with a prominent discocellulars boss of raised scales. The veins speckled with pale brown between waved lines. Hind wings with small discocellulars spot. Both wings with submarginal series of pale brown specks and a black marginal line interrupted by pale specks at vein. Ventral side fuscous brown. Both wings with very prominent black cell-spot, less prominent curved postmedial band. There is a prominent submarginal black spots series can be seen. A spot found between vein 3 and 4 absent.[3]

Female often with brownish ground color or with brown patches in the cell of fore wings and forming an obscure postmedial band to both wings.[4]

References

  1. "Home of Ichneumonoidea". Taxapad. Dicky Sick Ki Yu. 1997–2012. Retrieved 2013. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. LepIndex
  3. 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.
  4. "A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea" (PDF). Korean J. Syst. Zool. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
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