Idaea lycaugidia

Idaea lycaugidia is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1932. It is found in northern Madagascar.[1]

Idaea lycaugidia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Idaea
Species:
I. lycaugidia
Binomial name
Idaea lycaugidia
(L. B. Prout, 1932)
Synonyms
  • Sterrha lycaugidia L. B. Prout, 1932

This species has a wingspan of 14–18 mm and looks similar to Idaea lilliputaria (Warren, 1902) in shape and general aspect.[2]

References

  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Idaea lycaugidia (Prout L. B., 1932)". Afromoths. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  2. Prout, L. B. (1932). "New genera and species of Sterrhinae (Fam. Geometridae)". Novitates Zoologicae. 37: 229–251 on page 250.


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