Scopula modesta
| Scopula modesta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. modesta |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula modesta (Moore, [1887])[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Scopula modesta is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka and India.[2]
Description
Wingspan is about 30mm. Hind wings with more or less angled outer margin at vein 4. Body whitish suffused with brownish fuscous. Fore wings with almost straight oblique antemedial line. Both wings with oblique straight medial line with an indistinct diffused fuscous cell-spot inside it on fore wings and prominent brown cell-speck beyond it on hind wings. A nearly straight postmedial line, the area beyond it more suffused with brownish fuscous, sometimes with pale sub-marginal patches.[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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