Psilocerea vestitaria
Psilocerea vestitaria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Psilocerea |
Species: | P. vestitaria
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Binomial name | |
Psilocerea vestitaria C. Swinhoe, 1904
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Psilocerea vestitaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found on Madagascar.[1]
Its wingspan is 48.3 mm.
The original description by Swinhoe from 1904 is:[2]
Psilocerea vestitaria, nov.
(Fem). Grey with a slight pinkish tinge, uniform in coloration, irrorated with blackish-brown; a black dot at the end of each cell; a pale ochreous-brown indistinct interior band on the fore-wings, outwardly curved; a straight double line of the same colour from the apex of the fore-wings (where there is some brown suffusion) to the abdominal margin of hind-wings, a little below the middle, and two black spots on the hind-wings below this double line a little below the middle; outer margin of both wings slightly suffused with pale ochreous-brown; under-side slightly paler than the upper-side, well irrorated, the markings almost obsolete.
Expanse of wings 1.9/10 inches.
Hab. Madagascar (Coivan)
References
[edit]- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Psilocerea vestitaria Swinhoe, 1904". Afromoths. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- ^ Swinhoe, Charles (1904). "On the Geometridae of Tropical Africa in the National Collection". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1904: 520 – via Internet Archive.