Scopula actuaria

Scopula actuaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Scopulini
Genus: Scopula
Species: S. actuaria
Binomial name
Scopula actuaria
(Walker, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
  • Acidalia actuaria Walker, 1861
  • Ptychopoda nigranalis Warren, 1896
  • Craspedia parumnotata Warren, 1896
  • Scopula actuaria sheljuzhkoi Wiltshire, 1967

Scopula actuaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout the Oriental tropics from Afghanistan and Taiwan to the southern Moluccas and Timor. It is also found on the Chagos Archipelago.

There is some variability in the ornamentation of the male eighth sternite throughout its range, even within a single locality.

The larvae have been recorded on Theobroma species.

Subspecies

References

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  1. Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.

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