Psilocerea dysonaria

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

Psilocera dysonaria

Psilocerea dysonaria 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]

Pale uniform grey with a pinkish tinge irrorated with chestnut- brown atoms; the markings also chestnut-brown; a double straight band from apex of fore-wings, where there is a dark suffused space, to the middle of the abdominal margin of hind-wings, the interior space of the double band is whitish and there is a whitish edging on the outer side of it; on the outer margin of both wings there is some red-brown suffusion; under-side as above but paler.

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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