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Bosara modesta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Geometridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Bosara

Bosara modesta is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in the north-eastern Himalayas and on Java.

The wingspan is about 26 mm. Adults are fuscous, suffused with rufous on the body and base of the wings, which have traces of numerous waved lines. The forewings have an olive-green postmedial line, as well as a fine olive waved submarginal line. The hindwings have double postmedial and single submarginal curved and waved olive lines.

References

Bosara modesta Wikipedia