Psilocerea anearia

Psilocerea anearia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Genus: Psilocerea
Species: P. anearia
Binomial name
Psilocerea anearia
Swinhoe, 1904

Psilocerea anearia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Madagascar.[1]

Its wingspan is 1.7/10 inches = 43.2 mm.

The original description by Swinhoe from 1904 is:[2]

PSILOCEREA ANEARIA, nov.

(male). Pale brown with an ochreous tinge; plumes of antennae brown, shaft ochreous with brown spots ; frons and head ochreous, body and wings uniformly coloured, sparsely irrorated with blackishbrown atoms; a black dot at the end of each cell; indications of a black interior line on fore-wings outwardly curved, most distinct below the costa; a pale grey line, outwardly edged with whitish, quite straight but very indistinct, picked out with white specks with black points, running from the apex, near which is a black spot on the costa, to the middle of the hinder margin; hind-wings with a medial thin band, blackish and not very distinct, with some blackish marks below it and two black spots close together in the disc below the middle; under-side pinkish-white with the markings plainly shown and mostly black. Expanse of wings 1.7/10 inches.

Hab. Madagascar (Cowan).

References

  1. Afromoths.net
  2. Swinhoe. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1904).

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