Scopula adeptaria explained

Scopula adeptaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan, Hainan, southern Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, the Philippines, Sumba and northern Australia.[1]

Description

The wingspan is . The males are whitish irrorated (sprinkled) with brown. Frons blackish. Forewings with indistinct sinuous antemedial fuscous line excurved above median nervure. Both wings with cell-speck. A medial oblique line excurved round cell of forewings. Sinuous postmedial and submarginal lines present along with a marginal specks series. Female more suffused with fuscous. The submarginal dark line of the wing with white on its outer edge.[2]

Subspecies

Notes and References

  1. http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-10/scopulini/scopulini_5_6.php The Moths of Borneo
  2. 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.