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''Agathia hemithearia'' is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in India,
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
, China ( Hainan), Taiwan and Thailand.


Description

Its wingspan is about 36 mm. The markings are rufous. The thorax and abdomen are more heavily marked. Forewings with a medial band of regular width, and angled on median nervure. Both wings with rufous outer area irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous, with a waved postmedial grey line enclosing some conjoined sub-marginal green patches below the apex of each wing and near the inner margin of the hindwings. There is a green area sending a prominent tooth in to the rufous area at vein 5 and below vein 2 of each wing. The ocellus is reduced to a pale line across the tail. Ventral side with purplish fuscous markings.


References

Moths of Japan
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Geometrinae Moths of Asia Moths described in 1857 {{Geometrinae-stub