Mnesiloba dentifascia

Mnesiloba dentifascia is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by George Hampson in 1891. It is known from the Oriental tropics.[2][3]

Mnesiloba dentifascia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Geometridae
Genus:
Mnesiloba
Species:
M. dentifascia
Binomial name
Mnesiloba dentifascia
(Hampson, 1891)[1]
Synonyms
  • Eupithecia dentifascia Hampson, 1891
  • Mnesiloba seminigra Bastelberger, 1905

Description

Its wingspan is about 20 mm. Palpi with second joint reaching only just beyond the frontal tuft. Forewings usually with a tuft of raised scales on discocellulars. The body is dark brown, with black irrorations (speckles) and fuscous suffusion. Forewings with oblique, sub-basal, and antemedial lines angled below costa. The medial area blackish, with black cell-speck and edged by oblique black lines, where the outer highly dentate below veins 3 and 2. There is an indistinct waved postmedial line and waved grey sub-marginal line. Patches of fuscous suffusion found on margin below apex and above outer angle. Hindwings with indistinct dark antemedial, medial, postmedial and submarginal lines, becoming obsolescent on costal area, which is pale.[4]

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Mnesiloba dentifascia (Hampson 1891)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  2. "Mnesiloba dentifascia Hampson stat. rev". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  3. "此為 Mnesiloba dentifascia". Taiwan Moth Information Center. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  4. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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