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Comostolopsis subsimplex
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Comostolopsis
Species:	C. subsimplex
Binomial name
Comostolopsis subsimplex Prout, 1913

Comostolopsis subsimplex is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1913. This species was described from Madagascar.

This species has a bright orange face, bright orange palpus, the wings rather bright green, slightly darker than in Comostolopsis simplex, the costal edge of forewing is extremely narrowly ochreous; both wings bear a dark red discal dot and golden-yellow fringes. The forewing have two wavy, whitish, transverse lines. The underside of the wings is whitish green, the forewing with decided red suffusion and yellowish fringes. The wingspan is 16–18 mm.

See also

• List of moths of Madagascar

References

1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Comostolopsis subsimplex Prout L. B., 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
2. Prout, L. B. (1913). "Contributions to a knowledge of the subfamilies Oenochromidnae and Hemitheinae of Geometridae". Novitates Zoologicae. 20 (2): 388–442.

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