Aporandria specularia

Aporandria specularia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Aporandria
Species: A. specularia
Binomial name
Aporandria specularia
(Guenée, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Geometra specularia Guenée, 1857
  • Aporandria specularia haplograpta Prout, 1922

Aporandria specularia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, Thailand, the Andamans, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, the Philippines and Sulawesi.

Description

The wingspan of male is about 54mm and female 60mm. A pea-green colored moth. Palpi and frons chocolate colored. Vertex of head white. Fore wings with a dark speck at end of cell. Hind wings with yellow green base. A large lunulate pinkish mark with brown edges and a black speck on it at end of cell, extending towards costa and inner margin as an indistinct band. Both wings with traces of waved postmedial line. Ventral side of palpi, thorax and base of wings silvery white.[1]

Larva slender, with green body. Head strongly bifid. True legs are pale purplish red with darker spots. Early instars are dark yellow. It shows a twig-like posture when at rest. Eggs are thick, elongate-oval disc-shaped. Larvae have been recorded on Mangifera, Terminalia, Eugenia, Areca, Rhizophora and Nephelium species.[2]

It is a lowland species inhabited in both forested and disturbed or cultivated areas.[3]

References

  1. 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.
  2. "Aporandria specularia Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. "Aporandria specularia Guenee". jpmoth. Retrieved 5 October 2016.

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