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Comostolopsis subsimplex

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Geometridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Comostolopsis

Comostolopsis subsimplex is a moth of the family Geometridae. This species was described from Madagascar.

This species has a bright orange face, bright orange palpus, the wings rather bright green, slightly darker than in Comostolopsis simplex, the costal edge of forewing is extremely narrowly ochreons ; both wings bear a dark red discal dot and golden yellow fringes. The forewing have two wavy, whitish, transverse lines. The underside of the wings is whitish green, the forewing with decided red suffusion and yellowish fringes. The wingspan is 16–18mm.

References

Comostolopsis subsimplex Wikipedia