Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Geometridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Ennominae | |
Psilocerea anearia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Madagascar.
Its wingspan is 1.7/10 inches = 43.2 mm.
The original description by Swinhoe from 1904 is:
PSILOCEREA ANEARIA, nov.
(male). Pale brown with an ochreous tinge; plumes of antennae brown, shaft ochreous with brown spots ; frons and head ochreous, body and wings uniformly coloured, sparsely irrorated with blackishbrown atoms; a black dot at the end of each cell; indications of a black interior line on fore-wings outwardly curved, most distinct below the costa; a pale grey line, outwardly edged with whitish, quite straight but very indistinct, picked out with white specks with black points, running from the apex, near which is a black spot on the costa, to the middle of the hinder margin; hind-wings with a medial thin band, blackish and not very distinct, with some blackish marks below it and two black spots close together in the disc below the middle; under-side pinkish-white with the markings plainly shown and mostly black. Expanse of wings 1.7/10 inches.
Hab. Madagascar (Cowan).