Family Geometridae Rank Species | Tribe Scopulini | |
Description
Wingspan is 46mm. Antennae of male bipectinated, with stiff branches. Apex simple. Nearly pure white moth. Sides of palpi and vertex of head black. Abdomen tinged with fuscous. Fore wings with fuscous costa. A large olive oval ocellus found at end of cell, with a ring of raised silver scales on it, whereas greyish center, and two black specks below the center. Below the ocellus is a silver-ringed fulvous spot. a silver fascia found on inner margin. Hind wings with an elongate oval fuscous mark on discocellulars and below cell, with a ring of silver scales on it. A silver fascia present on inner margin. Both wings with waved and curved fuscous postmedial band with a more prominent maculate band beyond it, and a series of spots just inside the margin. A marginal fuscous line and a line through cilia can be seen.