Eupithecia costalis

Eupithecia costalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Eupithecia
Species:	E. costalis
Binomial name
Eupithecia costalis Walker, 1863[1]
Synonyms
Leiocera ferrisparsata Hampson, 1893 Pena costalis

Eupithecia costalis is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is widespread in the tropical and subtropical lowland regions of east and south-east Asia, from Taiwan to India, Sri Lanka^[2] Borneo,^[3] Borneo, to Hong Kong.^[4]

Description

Wingspan is about 22mm. Palpi with second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Fore wings with no tuft of raised scales on discocellulars. In female, body cinereous white. The palpi, head, collar and fore legs bright rusty. Abdomen with a rusty band on first segment. Fore wings with rusty costa. Some fuscous found on sub-costal nervure. A waved sub-basal dark line and double dark-edged pale antemedial and postmedial bands can be seen. Postmedial bands are excurved beyond cell, denatate outwards on veins 6 and 4, and inwards below vein 2. Two irregularly dentate medial lines present. The outer area rusty, turning to brown at the margin. A pale waved submarginal line. Hind wings with four waved lines on basal half. A double dark-edged postmedial pale band incurved beyond cell. Both wings with fine marginal line.^[5]

References

1. Taxapad
2. "Koçak,A.Ö. & M. Kemal,2012, Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". academia. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
3. Mironov, V.G. ; A.C. Galsworthy & K. Yazaki, 2009: A survey of the genus Eupithecia (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) in mainland South East Asia: Part II. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 60(3): 167-188. Abstract:
4. "Eupithecia costalis Walker, 1863". Buttefly House. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
5. 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.