Ophthalmitis (moth)

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Ophthalmitis
Ophthalmitis basiscripta Borneo.jpg
Ophthalmitis basiscripta from Borneo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Family:
Geometridae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus:
Ophthalmitis
Type species
Ophthalmitis herbidaria Guenée, 1857[1]
Synonyms
  • Ophthalmodes Guenée, 1857

Ophthalmitis is a genus of geometer moths in the Boarmiini tribe.

Description[]

All species have characteristic color patterns: the ground color is pale fawn, suffused or variegated with greenish brown. The fasciae are blackish and the discal spots likewise, prominent on each wing and usually enclosing an ellipse or a lunula of the ground color.

Palpi reaching vertex of head and fringed with hair in front. Antennae bipectinated (comb like on both sides) to near apex in both sexes, the branches longer in the male than female. Hind tibia not dilated. Forewings with a fovea in male. Apex rounded. Vein 3 from close to angle of cell. Veins 7 to 9 stalked from near upper angle. Vein 10 free and vein 11 given off from vein 12. Hindwing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell.[2]

Species[]

References[]

  1. ^ The Moths of Borneo
  2. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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