Psilocerea anearia

Psilocerea anearia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found on Madagascar.[1]

Psilocerea anearia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Geometridae
Genus:
Psilocerea
Species:
P. anearia
Binomial name
Psilocerea anearia

Its wingspan is 43.2 mm.

The original description by Swinhoe from 1904 is:[2]

Psilocerea anearia, nov.

(male). Pale brown with an ochreous tinge; plumes of antennae brown, shaft ochreous with brown spots; frons and head ochreous, body and wings uniformly coloured, sparsely irrorated with blackishbrown atoms; a black dot at the end of each cell; indications of a black interior line on fore-wings outwardly curved, most distinct below the costa; a pale grey line, outwardly edged with whitish, quite straight but very indistinct, picked out with white specks with black points, running from the apex, near which is a black spot on the costa, to the middle of the hinder margin; hind-wings with a medial thin band, blackish and not very distinct, with some blackish marks below it and two black spots close together in the disc below the middle; under-side pinkish-white with the markings plainly shown and mostly black.

Expanse of wings 1.7/10 inches.

Hab. Madagascar (Cowan).

References
  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Psilocerea anearia Swinhoe, 1904". Afromoths. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  2. Swinhoe (1904). "Transactions of the Entomological Society of London". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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