Actenochroma
Appearance
Actenochroma muscicoloraria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Tribe: | Pseudoterpnini |
Genus: | Actenochroma Warren, 1893 |
Species: | A. muscicoloraria
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Binomial name | |
Actenochroma muscicoloraria (Walker, [1863])
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Synonyms | |
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Actenochroma is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It consists of only one species, Actenochroma muscicoloraria, which is found in Brunei, China, India, Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatra), western Malaysia and Nepal.[1]
Adults are fairly uniformly palish green, with wavy antemedial and dentate postmedial lines which are darker green, each forming a dark green spot on the costa of the forewing.
References
[edit]- ^ Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (June 11, 2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150 (2): 334–412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012.
- Savela, Markku. "Actenochroma Warren, 1893". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 17, 2019.