Agathia hemithearia

Agathia hemithearia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Geometrini
Genus: Agathia
Species: A. hemithearia
Binomial name
Agathia hemithearia
Guenée, 1857[1]

Agathia hemithearia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, China (Hainan), Taiwan[2] and Thailand.[3]

Description

Wingspan is about 36mm. Markings are rufous. Thorax and abdomen more heavily marked. Fore wings with a medial band of regular width, and angled on median nervure. Both wings with rufous outer area irrorated with fuscous, with a waved postmedial grey line enclosing some conjoined sub-marginal green patches below apex of each wing and near inner margin of hind wings. Green area sending a prominent tooth in to the rufous area at vein 5 and below vein 2 of each wing. The ocellus reduced to a pale line across the tail. Ventral side with purplish fuscous markings.[4]

References

  1. Bisby F.A.; Roskov Y.R.; Orrell T.M.; Nicolson D.; Paglinawan L.E.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.M.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Ouvrard D. (2011). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. Moths of Japan
  3. BOLD Systems
  4. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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