Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Geometridae Scientific name Aporandria specularia | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Aporandria Rank Species | |
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Similar Berta chrysolineata, Comostola, Pingasa, Agathia, Dysphania | ||
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.
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.
It is a lowland species inhabited in both forested and disturbed or cultivated areas.