Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Geometridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Collix | |
Collix hypospilata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Description
Wingspan is about 40mm. Palpi with the second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Mid tibia of male very much dilated and with a deep groove. Abdomen long, with a large anal tuft. Male has dark fuscous, with a slight purplish tinge. Wings with numerous indistinct waved black lines. Fore wings with a prominent discocellulars boss of raised scales. The veins speckled with pale brown between waved lines. Hind wings with small discocellulars spot. Both wings with submarginal series of pale brown specks and a black marginal line interrupted by pale specks at vein. Ventral side fuscous brown. Both wings with very prominent black cell-spot, less prominent curved postmedial band. There is a prominent submarginal black spots series can be seen. A spot found between vein 3 and 4 absent.
Female often with brownish ground color or with brown patches in the cell of fore wings and forming an obscure postmedial band to both wings.