Scardamia
| Scardamia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Ennominae |
| Genus: | Scardamia Guenée, 1857 |
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Scardamia is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
Description
Palpi smoothly scaled and not reaching beyond the frons. Antennae of male bipectinated. Hind tibia not dilated. Fore wings with vein 3 from before angle fo cell. Veins 7 to 9 stalked from before upper angle and veins 10 and 11 stalked, anastomosing with vein 12. Hind wings with vein 3 from before angle of cell and vein 7 from before upper angle.[1]
Species
- Scardamia aurantiacaria Bremer, 1864
- Scardamia bractearia (Walker, 1860)
- Scardamia chrysolina Meyrick, 1892 (Australia)
- Scardamia iographa Prout, 1932 (Borneo, Malaysia)
- Scardamia ithyzona Turner, 1919 (Australia)
- Scardamia maculata Warren, 1897 ( Central & E.Africa, Madagascar)
- Scardamia metallaria Guenée, 1858 (India, S.E.Asia, Australia)
- Scardamia nubilicosta Prout L. B., 1932 (Congo, Nigeria)
- Scardamia obliquaria Leech, 1897
- Scardamian seminigra Prout, 1925
- Scardamia xylosmaria Sato, C.M. Fu & Kawakami, 2011 (Japan)
References
- ↑ 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.
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