Somatina omicraria

Somatina omicraria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Somatina
Species:	S. omicraria
Binomial name
	Somatina omicraria; (Fabricius, 1798)
Synonyms
	Phalaena omicraria Fabricius, 1798; Somatina cana Hampson, 1895; Ephyra extrusata Walker, 1861;

Short description: Species of moth

Somatina omicraria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798. It is found in India ^[2] and Sri Lanka.

Description

Its wingspan is about 30 mm. Antennae of male with fascicles of cilia. It is a white colored moth with fuscous frons. Wings irrorated (sprinkled) with a few fuscous scales. Forewings with traces of a waved antemedial line. A large irregular rufous and fuscous ocellelus at end of cell, with a ring of bluish-silver scales on it. Hindwings with a fulvous and silver line on discocellulars. Both wings with a curved and slightly sinuous postmedial black specks series, with a series of fuscous spots, beyond series of black striae.^[3]

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.
↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Somatina omicraria". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=216992.
↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up.

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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] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Somatina omicraria". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=216992.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up.

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Somatina omicraria

Topic: Biology

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