Neromia picticosta

Neromia picticosta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Geometrinae
Genus: Neromia
Species: N. picticosta
Binomial name
Neromia picticosta
Prout, 1913[1]

Neromia picticosta is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Madagascar.

It has a wingspan of 22 mm. The wings are dull bluish green, irrorated with white. The face is dark red, the thorax and abdomen dorsally green.[2]

This species was described from a specimen from Antananarivo.

References

  1. ↑ afromoths.net
  2. ↑ Biostor.org: Prout, L. B. 1913a. Contributions to a knowledge of the subfamilies Oenochromidnae and Hemitheinae of Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 20(2):388–442.


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