Scopula deflavarioides

Scopula deflavarioides is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found on Borneo.[2] The habitat consists of wet heath forest and hill dipterocarp forest.

Scopula deflavarioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scopula
Species:
S. deflavarioides
Binomial name
Scopula deflavarioides
Holloway, 1997[1]

The length of the forewings is 8–9 mm. Adults have a yellowish fawn ground colour with a fine, rather wavy fasciation.

References

  1. Sihvonen, Pasi (April 1, 2005). "Phylogeny and classification of the Scopulini moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143 (4): 473–530. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00153.x.
  2. The Moths of Borneo


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