Scopula caesaria
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. caesaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula caesaria (Walker, 1861)[1] | |
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Scopula caesaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It has a wide range, including the Comoros, Mayotte, La Réunion, Madagascar and in Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Gambia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates,[2] New Guinea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia (Queensland).
Adults of have brown wings with red zigzag markings.[3]
Subspecies
- Scopula caesaria caesaria
- Scopula caesaria walkeros Wiltshire, [1981] (Oman, United Arab Emirates)
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- ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
- ↑ Afro Moths
- ↑ Australian Insects
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