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Psilocerea dysonaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Geometridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Ennominae

Psilocerea dysonaria 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:

Pale uniform grey with a pinkish tinge irrorated with chestnut- brown atoms; the markings also chestnut-brown; a double straight band from apex of fore-wings, where there is a dark suffused space, to the middle of the abdominal margin of hind-wings, the interior space of the double band is whitish and there is a whitish edging on the outer side of it; on the outer margin of both wings there is some red-brown suffusion; under-side as above but paler.

Expanse of wings 1.7/10 inches.

Hab. Madagascar (Cowan).

References

Psilocerea dysonaria Wikipedia