Catoria sublavaria

Catoria sublavaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Catoria
Species: C. sublavaria
Binomial name
Catoria sublavaria
(Guenee, 1857)[1]
Synonyms
  • Boarmia sublavaria Guenee, 1857
  • Boarmia spilotaria Snellen, 1881

Catoria sublavaria is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in the Oriental Tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, towards New Guinea, to the Bismarck Islands and Taiwan.

Description

Wingspan about 40-45mm. Fore wings with vein 10 and 11 stalked in male, sometimes connected with vein 12, but in female with vein 11 anastomosing or coincident with vein 12. Body greyish white. Frons and palpi black. Wings irrorated with pale fuscous spots. Fore wings with antemedial, both wings with medial, postmedial, submarginal and marginal specks series. There are traces of a ring-spot at end of cell. Ventral side fuscous, with very large black cell-spots and white marginal patches at apex and middle of each wing.[2]

Larva cylindrical, a shining black with a faint greenish tinge. It rests slightly curved on a leaf-edge. Pupation is in a silken cell on the ground or between two leaves.[3]

The larvae feed on Alseodaphne and Excoecaria species.[4]

Subspecies

References

  1. taxapad.com
  2. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  3. "Catoria sublavaria Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  4. Catoria at funet
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