Biology:Actenochroma
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Short description: Monotypic genus of geometer moths
| Actenochroma muscicoloraria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Pseudoterpnini |
| Genus: | Actenochroma Warren, 1893 |
| Species: | A. muscicoloraria
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| Binomial name | |
| Actenochroma muscicoloraria (Walker, [1863])
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Actenochroma is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It consists of only one species, Actenochroma muscicoloraria, which is found in Brunei, China , India , Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatra), western Malaysia and Nepal.[1]
Adults are fairly uniformly palish green, with wavy antemedial and dentate postmedial lines which are darker green, each forming a dark green spot on the costa of the forewing.
References
- ↑ Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (June 11, 2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (2): 334–412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x. http://www.aseanbiodiversity.info/Abstract/51012319.pdf.
- Savela, Markku. "Actenochroma Warren, 1893". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/geometrinae/actenochroma/. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
Wikidata ☰ Q4676773 entry
