Pitthea perspicua

Pitthea perspicua
Pitthea perspicua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Genus: Pitthea
Species: P.perspicua
Binomial name
Pitthea perspicua
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Leucopsumis cryptochroma Walker, 1869
  • Tuerckheimia lynckerii Dewitz, 1881
  • Pitthea tamsi Bethune-Baker, 1927

Pitthea perspicua is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon and Congo.[1]

The wingspan is about 44 mm. The forewings are black, with an oblique white hyaline, subapical bar. The hindwings are black, with the central area of the wing from the base to well beyond the cell, and from well above to well below the cell, bright deep ultramarine-blue. The underside of the hindwings is yellow, almost to the termen, which is narrowly black, whilst the apical area is more broadly black.[2]

References

  1. ↑ afromoths
  2. ↑ Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1927. Descriptions of new Heterocera from Africa and the East. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)20:321–334
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