Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Geometridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Sauris | |
Sauris hirudinata is a moth of the Geometridae family. It was described by Guenée in 1858. It is found in Fiji, Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong, as well as on Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
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Description
Wingspan is about 28mm in male and 28-38mm in female. Fore wings of male with distorted outer angle clothed with curved hair on underside, Hind tibia with a tuft of long hair from extremity. Paired lateral tufts from base of abdomen. Head and thorax olive-green, with slight dark markings. Antennae black. Fore wings olive green, irrorated with silvery scales. There are numerous indistinct waved green lines, one sub-basal line, two antemedial, three postmedial and one submarginal being purplish fuscous. Some purplish suffusion found in interno-median interspace and beyond cell. A speck can be at end of cell. Margin purplish, with a black spot series. Abdomen and hind wings fuscous.
Larva cylindrical with a rounded head, pale green with a fine yellow spiracular line. The larvae feed on Alseodaphne and Lagerstroemia species. They feed on the edges of young leaves. The larvae are pale green.