Cleora injectaria

Cleora injectaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Boarmiini
Genus: Cleora
Species: C. injectaria
Binomial name
Cleora injectaria
Walker, 1860
Synonyms
  • Boarmia injectaria

Cleora injectaria is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in the tropical regions of the Indomalayan and Australasian ecozones, up to Fiji and New Caledonia.

The wingspan is about 36-50 mm.[1] Adults are greyish or pale brown with variable complicated darker markings.[2]

The larvae feed on mangrove vegetation of Rhizophora, Avicennia, Excoecaria and Xylocarpus species.[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. "Cleora injectaria (Walker, 1860)". Butterfly House. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  3. Jeremy Daniel Holloway. "Cleora injectaria". Southdene Sdn. Bhd. Retrieved 2008-12-05.

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