Comostola

Genus of moths

Comostola

Comostola laesaria
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Geometridae
Tribe:  | Hemitheini
Genus:  | Comostola
Meyrick, 1888
Synonyms

* Pyrrhorachis Warren, 1896
* Leucodesmia Warren, 1899 (preocc. Howard, 1895)
* Chloeres Turner, 1910

Comostola is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1888. They are found primarily in Asia and Australia.[1]

## Species

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* Comostola cedilla Prout, 1917 New Guinea, Queensland, southern Moluccas, Sulawesi, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia
* Comostola chlorargyra (Walker, 1861) India, Andamans, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi
* Comostola christinaria Han & Xue, 2009
* Comostola citrolimbaria (Guenée, 1857) Australia
* Comostola conchylias Meyrick, 1889 New Guinea
* Comibaena dispansa Walker, 1861 India
* Comostola dyakaria (Walker, 1861) Borneo, Philippines, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, north-eastern Himalayas
* Comostola enodata Holloway, 1996 Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Sulawesi, New Guinea
* Comostola haplophanes Turner, 1910 Australia
* Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004 Kumaon[2]
* Comostola hypotyphla Prout, 1917 India
* Comostola inops Prout, 1912 India
* Comostola iodioides (Lucas, 1891) Australia
* Comostola laesaria (Walker, 1861) Sri Lanka, India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Sundaland, northern Australia, Bismarck Archipelago
* Comostola leucomerata (Walker, 1866) Australia
* Comostola maculata (Moore, 1867) India
* Comostola meritaria (Walker, 1861) Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Sumatra, Borneo,
* Comostola minutata (Druce, 1888) Solomons, Bismarck Archipelago
* Comostola mundata Warren, 1896 India
* Comostola nereidaria (Snellen, 1881) Sulawesi, Borneo, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
* Comostola ocellulata Prout, 1920
* Comostola orestias Prout, 1934 Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia
* Comostola ovifera (Warren, 1893) India
* Comostola prasochroa (Turner, 1931) Australia
* Comostola pyrrhogona (Walker, 1866) India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, northern Australia, Norfolk Island
* Comostola rhodoselas (Prout) Samoa, Fiji
* Comostola satoi Inoue, 1986
* Comostola simplex (Warren) Java
* Comostola subtiliaria (Bremer, 1864) south-eastern Siberia, Korea, north-eastern Himalayas, southern China
* Comostola turgescens (Prout, 1917) north-eastern Himalayas, Sundaland, Sulawesi
* Comostola virago Prout, 1926 India

## References

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1. ^ Eric Tentarelli (2012). A Guide to Insects. Blackwell. p. 559.
2. ^ Irungbam, Jatishwor (2015). "A new range record of Comostola hauensteini Smetacek, 2004". Journal of Threatened Taxa. Retrieved 21 July 2018.

* Kandasamy, Gunathilagaraj (2016). "Checklist of Indian Geometridae with FBI number". Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
* Savela, Markku. "Comostola Meyrick, 1888". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
* Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Geometridae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

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Taxon identifiers

Comostola|

* Wikidata: Q5155233
* Wikispecies: Comostola
* AFD: Comostola
* BioLib: 686483
* BOLD: 5433
* ButMoth: 6873.0
* CoL: 925TC
* EoL: 33147
* GBIF: 1987746
* iNaturalist: 52011
* IRMNG: 1435106
* LepIndex: 209001
* NCBI: 393361
* Open Tree of Life: 113214
* Plazi: 8D8DC79F-0D7A-525B-9DE7-FF3ED61ABDBA

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