Collix hypospilata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Collix
Species:
C. hypospilata
Binomial name
Collix hypospilata
Synonyms
  • Phibalapteryx hypospilata Guenée, 1857

Collix hypospilata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.[2]

Description

Its wingspan is about 40 millimetres (1.6 in). Palpi with the second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Mid tibia of male very much dilated and with a deep groove. Abdomen long, with a large anal tuft. The male is dark fuscous with a slight purplish tinge. Wings with numerous indistinct waved black lines. Forewings with a prominent discocellulars boss of raised scales. The veins speckled with pale brown between waved lines. Hindwings with small discocellular spots. Both wings with submarginal series of pale brown specks and a black marginal line interrupted by pale specks at the vein. Ventral side fuscous brown. Both wings with very prominent black cell-spot, less prominent curved postmedial band. There is a prominent submarginal black spot series. A spot found between vein 3 and 4 absent.[3]

Female often with brownish ground color or with brown patches in the cell of forewings and forming an obscure postmedial band to both wings.[4]

References

  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Collix hypospilata Guenee 1857". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on July 26, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Collix hypospilata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  3. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. Choi, Sei-Woong; Na, Sang-Hyun (July 2011). "A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea" (PDF). Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology. 27 (2): 164–166. doi:10.5635/KJSZ.2011.27.2.164. ISSN 2233-7687.


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