Somatina omicraria

Short description: Species of moth

Somatina omicraria

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Geometridae
Genus:  | Somatina
Species:  |

S. omicraria

Binomial name
Somatina omicraria

(Fabricius, 1798)[1]

Synonyms

* Phalaena omicraria Fabricius, 1798
* Somatina cana Hampson, 1895
* Ephyra extrusata Walker, 1861

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

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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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