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Psilocerea vestitaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Geometridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Ennominae

Psilocerea vestitaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Madagascar.

Its wingspan is 1.9/10 inches = 48.3 mm.

The original description by Swinhoe from 1904 is:

PSILOCEREA VESTITARIA, nov.

(Fem). Grey with a slight pinkish tinge, uniform in coloration, irrorated with blackish-brown ; a black dot at the end of each cell; a pale ochreous-brown indistinct interior band on the fore-wings, outwardly curved ; a straight double line of the same colour from the apex of the fore-wings (where there is some brown suffusion) to the abdominal margin of hind-wings, a little below the middle, and two black spots on the hind-wings below this double line a little below the middle; outer margin of both wings slightly suffused with pale ochreous-brown; under-side slightly paler than the upper-side, well irrorated, the markings almost obsolete.

Expanse of wings 1.9/10 inches.

Hab. Madagascar (Coivan)

References

Psilocerea vestitaria Wikipedia


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