Scopula roezaria
| Scopula roezaria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Scopulini |
| Genus: | Scopula |
| Species: | S. roezaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Scopula roezaria (Swinhoe, 1904)[1] | |
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Scopula roezaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Madagascar.[2]
This species has a wingspan of 20 millimetres (0.79 in). Frons and palpi are chestnut-red, the top of the head is white with a chestnut band behind. Body and wings are white, a costal line of the forewings is chestnut-red. A dentated grey discal line with black points across both wings, an indistinct submarginal line and black marginal points. The underside of both wings is white the forewings with the red costal line and some red suffusion on the costal space, discal line red and marginal line of both wings red.[3]
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Wikispecies has information related to: Scopula roezaria |
- ↑ Sihvonen, P., 2005: Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143: 473–530.
- ↑ Afro Moths
- ↑ Swinhoe, C. 1904c. On the Geometridae of tropical Africa in the National Collection. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1904(3):497–590. (on page 557)
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