Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Geometridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Ennominae | |
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Hypochrosis hyadaria is a geometer moth in the Ennominae subfamily. The species has a wide range from India, Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia.
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Description
Wingspan of the male is 52mm and the female 64mm. Palpi porrect, and do not reach beyond the frons. Body pale red, with a purplish tinge and with dark stria. Frons chestnut. Fore wings with an oblique antemedial line and a small annulus at end of cell. An oblique postmedial line highly angled below apex, where it encloses a greyish lunule, running to middle of inner margin of hind wing but obsolete on costal area of hind wing, which is paler. The area between the lines of fore wing often pale towards costa. Ventral side is rufous or orange yellow, often with a outer area of fore wing rufous.
The species is a complex of species that are very similar in wing pattern, and can only be differentiated exactly by male genitalia differences.