Hypochrosis hyadaria
| Hypochrosis hyadaria | |
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| Hypochrosis hyadaria bebaea from Malaya | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Ennominae |
| Tribe: | Hypochrosini |
| Genus: | Hypochrosis |
| Species: | H. hyadaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypochrosis hyadaria Guenée, 1857 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hypochrosis hyadaria is a geometer moth in the Ennominae subfamily. The species has a wide range from India, Sri Lanka[1] through Southeast Asia.
Description
Wingspan of the male is 52mm and the female 64mm. Palpi porrect, and do not reach beyond the frons. Body pale red, with a purplish tinge and with dark stria. Frons chestnut. Fore wings with an oblique antemedial line and a small annulus at end of cell. An oblique postmedial line highly angled below apex, where it encloses a greyish lunule, running to middle of inner margin of hind wing but obsolete on costal area of hind wing, which is paler. The area between the lines of fore wing often pale towards costa. Ventral side is rufous or orange yellow, often with a outer area of fore wing rufous.[2]
The species is a complex of species that are very similar in wing pattern, and can only be differentiated exactly by male genitalia differences.[3]
Subspecies
- H. h. annulata (Pagenstecher, 1896) — Philippines, Sulawesi
- H. h. bebaea (Prout, 1932) — Southeast Asia, Borneo
- H. h. korndoerfferi (Snellen, 1877) — Sumatra, Java, Bali
- H. h. lubricata (Warren, 1899) — Flores, Sumbawa
- H. h. subaurantiaca (Warren, 1896) — Timor
- H. h. form. stigmata (Smetacek, 2004) — Kumaun Himalayas[4]
References
- ↑ "NuwanChathuranga photos". Project Noah. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Hypochrosis hyadaria Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ↑ Smetacek, Peter, 2004: Descriptions of new Lepidoptera from the Kumaon Himalaya. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society ust; 101(2): 269-276