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Ophthalmitis (moth)

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Genus of moths

Ophthalmitis
Ophthalmitis basiscripta from Borneo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Boarmiini
Genus: Opthalmitis
Type species
Ophthalmitis herbidaria Guenée, 1857
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.

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.
Taxon identifiers
Ophthalmitis


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