Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Geometridae Scientific name Mnesiloba dentifascia | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Mnesiloba Rank Species | |
Mnesiloba dentifascia is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is known from the Oriental tropics.
Description
Wingspan is about 20mm. Palpi with second joint reaching only just beyond the frontal tuft. Fore wings usually with a tuft of raised scales on discocellulars. Body dark brown, with black irrorations and fuscous suffusion. Fore wings with oblque, sub-basal, and antemedial lines angled below costa. The medial area blackish, with black cell-speck and edged by oblique black lines, where the outer highly dentate below veins 3 and 2. There is an indistinct waved postmedial line and waved grey sub-marginal line. Patches of fuscous suffusion found on margin below apex and above outer angle. Hind wings with indistinct dark antemedial, medial, postmedial and submarginal lines, becoming obsolescent on costal area, which is pale.