Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Geometridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Tribe Scopulini | |
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Scopula fibulata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Kenya, Sri Lanka and China.
Description
Wingspan is about 26-28mm. Grey colored moth thickly irrorated with fuscous. Frons black. Fore wings with dentate antemedial, medial, and postmedial dark lines with olive edges, the medial line excurved round a black olive-edged cell-speck, and the postmedial with a larger dentition at vein 6. A crenulate pale of white submarginal line found expanding at middle and above inner margin into patches, which may be white and prominent or obscure. Hind wings with black cell-speck. There is a waved medial line. A dentate postmedial line. A pale crenulate submarginal line, sometimes expanding into pale patches above middle and above inner margin.
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