Collix hypospilata explained

Collix hypospilata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Description

Its wingspan is about . Palpi with the second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Mid tibia of male very much dilated and with a deep groove. Abdomen long, with a large anal tuft. The male is dark fuscous with a slight purplish tinge. Wings with numerous indistinct waved black lines. Forewings with a prominent discocellulars boss of raised scales. The veins speckled with pale brown between waved lines. Hindwings with small discocellular spots. Both wings with submarginal series of pale brown specks and a black marginal line interrupted by pale specks at the vein. Ventral side fuscous brown. Both wings with very prominent black cell-spot, less prominent curved postmedial band. There is a prominent submarginal black spot series. A spot found between vein 3 and 4 absent.[1]

Female often with brownish ground color or with brown patches in the cell of forewings and forming an obscure postmedial band to both wings.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hampson, G. F. . George Hampson

    . George Hampson . 1895 . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma . Moths Volume III . Taylor and Francis . Biodiversity Heritage Library.

  2. A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea . Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology. 27. 2. 164–166. July 2011. 2233-7687. 10.5635/KJSZ.2011.27.2.164. Choi . Sei-Woong . Na . Sang-Hyun . free.