Comostola pyrrhogona

Comostola pyrrhogona is a moth of the family Geometridae described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics from India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan, and east to Vanuatu, New Caledonia, northern Australia and Norfolk Island.

Comostola pyrrhogona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Comostola
Species:
C. pyrrhogona
Binomial name
Comostola pyrrhogona
(Walker, 1866)
Synonyms
  • Eucrostis pyrrhogona Walker, 1866
  • Jodis marginata Lucas, 1895
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta Warren, 1896
  • Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona augustata Prout, 1917
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta callicrossa Prout, 1934
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta pisochlora Prout, 1934
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta woodfordi Prout, 1934
  • Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona succornuta Prout, 1937
  • Pyrrhorachis cornuta exquisitata D. S. Fletcher, 1957
  • Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona subcrenulata Holloway, 1977

Description

The wingspan is about 15–18 mm. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 stalked. Antennae of male bipectinated (comb like on both sides) to two-thirds length. Palpi with second and third joints long and slender. Forewings with straight discocellulars. Veins 3, 4 and 6 to 11 stalked. Female pale bluish. Head rufous. A rufous dorsal stripe found on vertex of thorax and abdomen. Forewings with costa, and both wings with the outer margin are orange reddish, with black scales and spots irrorated (sprinkled) with silver. Ventral side whitish.[1] Male genitalia include a slender spine enfolded in the sacculus.[2]

References
  1. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. "Comostola pyrrhogona Walker comb. n." The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  • Barnett, L. K.; Emms, C. W. & Holloway, J. D. (July 1, 1999). "The moths of the Chagos Archipelago with notes on their biogeography". Journal of Natural History. 33 (7): 1021–1038. doi:10.1080/002229399300065.
  • Moths of Asia


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