Cleora Munditibia
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''Cleora munditibia'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
of the family
Geometridae The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''met ...
. It is found on
Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
. The
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is 40–44 mm. The larvae feed on the leaves of '' Mucuna aterrima''.The food-plants or hosts of some Fijian insects. IV
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Subspecies

*''Cleora munditibia munditibia'' *''Cleora munditibia lauensis'' Robinson, 1975


References

Moths described in 1927 Cleora Moths of Fiji {{Boarmiini-stub