Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Geometridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Tribe Scopulini | |
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Scopula adeptaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, Hainan, southern Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, the Philippines, Sumba and northern Australia.
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Description
Wingspan is 16mm. Male whitish irrorated with brown. Frons blackish. Fore wings with indistinct sinous antemedial fuscous line excurved above median nervure. Both wings with cell-speck. A medial oblique line excurved round cell of fore wings. Sinous postmedial and submarginal lines present along with a marginal specks series. Female more suffused with fuscous. The submarginal dark line of the wing with white on its outer edge.
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