Zeheba

Zeheba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Genus: Zeheba

Zeheba is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.

Description

Palpi short, porrect and roughly scaled. Antennae of male ciliated. Hind tibia dilated, with a fold and tuft of long hair on inner side. Fore wings highly falcate at apex. The outer margin excised from the apex to vein 4, then oblique o=to outer angle. Vein 3 from angle of cell. Vein 7 to 9 stalked, vein 10 absent and vein 11 free. Hind wings with short and broad cell. Vein 7 and 8 being much arched near base. Vein 3 from angle of cell. The outer margin produced at the vein in male and highly angled at vein 4 in female.[1]

References

  1. 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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