Scopula pulchellata

Scopula pulchellata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, from India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan and the Solomon Islands,^[2] as well as in Africa.

Scopula pulchellata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Scopula
Species:	S. pulchellata
Binomial name
Scopula pulchellata (Fabricius, 1794)[1]
Synonyms
Phalaena pulchellata Fabricius, 1794 Craspedia discata Warren, 1897 Idaea grandicularia Swinhoe, 1886 Acidalia ligataria Walker, 1861 Acidalia metaspilaria Walker, 1861 Acidalia nictata Guenée, 1857 Acidalia perlineata Walker, 1861 Scopula perlineata obdiscata Prout, 1938 Scopula perlineata spilotis Prout, 1938 Acidalia spatiosaria Walker, 1866 Craspedia spilodorsata Warren, 1895 Scopula spilodorsata cosmeta Prout, 1938 Craspedia rufinubes Warren, 1900

Description

Its wingspan is about 24 mm. Hindwings with more or less angled outer margin at vein 4. ochreous white colored moth. Frons fuscous. Forewings with a discocellular speck. Indistinct obliquely waved fuscous antemedial and medial lines, the latter on hindwing embracing the black discocellular spot. Both wings with waved postmedial line, with fuscous marks beyond it above middle of forewings and above inner margin of each wing. There is a sub-marginal fuscous marks series and a marginal black specks series.^[3]

Subspecies

• Scopula pulchellata pulchellata
• Scopula pulchellata rufinubes (Warren, 1900)
• Scopula pulchellata semperi Prout, 1938
• Scopula pulchellata takowensis Prout, 1938