Psilocerea dysonaria
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Psilocerea |
| Species: | P. dysonaria
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| Binomial name | |
| Psilocerea dysonaria C. Swinhoe, 1904
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Psilocerea dysonaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found on Madagascar.[1]
Its wingspan is 43.2 mm.
The original description by Swinhoe from 1904 is:[2]
Pale uniform grey with a pinkish tinge irrorated with chestnut-brown atoms; the markings also chestnut-brown; a double straight band from apex of fore-wings, where there is a dark suffused space, to the middle of the abdominal margin of hind-wings, the interior space of the double band is whitish and there is a whitish edging on the outer side of it; on the outer margin of both wings there is some red-brown suffusion; under-side as above but paler.
Expanse of wings 1.7/10 inches.
Hab. Madagascar (Cowan).
References
[edit]- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Psilocerea dysonaria Swinhoe, 1904". Afromoths. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- ^ Swinhoe, Charles (1904). "On the Geometridae of Tropical Africa in the National Collection". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1904: 521.
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