Biology:Psilocerea anearia
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Species: | P. anearia
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Psilocerea anearia C. Swinhoe, 1904
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Psilocerea anearia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found on Madagascar .[1]
Its wingspan is 43.2 mm.
The original description by Swinhoe from 1904 is:[2]
Psilocerea anearia, nov.(male). Pale brown with an ochreous tinge; plumes of antennae brown, shaft ochreous with brown spots; frons and head ochreous, body and wings uniformly coloured, sparsely irrorated with blackishbrown atoms; a black dot at the end of each cell; indications of a black interior line on fore-wings outwardly curved, most distinct below the costa; a pale grey line, outwardly edged with whitish, quite straight but very indistinct, picked out with white specks with black points, running from the apex, near which is a black spot on the costa, to the middle of the hinder margin; hind-wings with a medial thin band, blackish and not very distinct, with some blackish marks below it and two black spots close together in the disc below the middle; under-side pinkish-white with the markings plainly shown and mostly black.
Expanse of wings 1.7/10 inches.
Hab. Madagascar (Cowan).
References
- ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2018). "Psilocerea anearia Swinhoe, 1904". http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/PSILANEA. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- ↑ Swinhoe (1904). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London.
Wikidata ☰ Q7255820 entry
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