Scopula fibulata

Scopula fibulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Scopula
Species:	S. fibulata
Binomial name
	Scopula fibulata; (Guenée, [1858])
Synonyms
	Acidalia fibulata Guenee, 1858;

Scopula fibulata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858.[1] It is found in Kenya,[2] Sri Lanka[3] and China.

Description

Its wingspan is about 26–28 millimetres (1.0–1.1 in). The species is grey thickly irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous. Frons black. Forewings 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. Hindwings 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.[4]

References

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.
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Scopula fibulata (Guenée, 1857)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Scopula fibulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[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] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Scopula fibulata (Guenée, 1857)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 8, 2020.

[3] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Scopula fibulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.

[4] Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.