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
- ↑ Afromoths.net
- ↑ Swinhoe. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1904).