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Zeheba

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Geometridae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Ennominae

Zeheba is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.

Description

Palpi short, porrect and roughly scaled. Antennae of male ciliated. Hind tibia dilated, with a fold and tuft of long hair on inner side. Fore wings highly falcate at apex. The outer margin excised from the apex to vein 4, then oblique o=to outer angle. Vein 3 from angle of cell. Vein 7 to 9 stalked, vein 10 absent and vein 11 free. Hind wings with short and broad cell. Vein 7 and 8 being much arched near base. Vein 3 from angle of cell. The outer margin produced at the vein in male and highly angled at vein 4 in female.

References

Zeheba Wikipedia


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