''Catoria sublavaria'' is a moth of the family Geometridae described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in the tropics of 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 ...

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

, towards New Guinea, to the Bismarck Islands and Taiwan.

Description

Its wingspan is about 40–45 mm. Forewings with vein 10 and 11 stalked in male, sometimes connected with vein 12, but in female with vein 11 anastomosing (fusing) or coincident with vein 12. Body greyish white. Frons and palpi black. Wings irrorated (sprinkled) with pale fuscous spots. Forewings with antemedial, both wings with medial, postmedial, submarginal and marginal specks series. There are traces of a ring-spot at end of cell. Ventral side fuscous, with very large black cell-spots and white marginal patches at apex and middle of each wing. Larva cylindrical, a shining black with a faint greenish tinge. It rests slightly curved on a leaf edge. Pupation is in a silken cell on the ground or between two leaves. The larvae feed on ''

Alseodaphne ''Alseodaphne'' is a genus of plants in the family Lauraceae, endemic to China and Southeast Asia. The genus has 96 species of evergreen trees to shrubs. They have bisexual flowers, a fruit stalk that is red, green, or yellow, and black fruit.

'' and '' Excoecaria'' species.

Subspecies

*''Catoria sublavaria sublavaria'' *''Catoria sublavaria psimythota'' Prout, 1929 *''Catoria sublavaria spilotaria'' (Snellen, 1881) *''Catoria sublavaria subnata'' Prout, 1929 *''Catoria sublavaria tenax'' Prout, 1929

References

Moths described in 1857 Boarmiini {{Boarmiini-stub