''Comostola'' is a genus of
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 ...
s in 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 ...
erected by
Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern micr ...
in 1888. They are found primarily in
Asia
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and
Australia
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.
Species
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Comostola cedilla''
Prout, 1917 New Guinea, Queensland, southern Moluccas, Sulawesi, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia
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Comostola chlorargyra''
(Walker, 1861) India, Andamans, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi
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Comostola christinaria''
Han & Xue, 2009
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Comostola citrolimbaria''
(Guenée, 1857) Australia
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Comostola conchylias''
Meyrick, 1889 New Guinea
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Comibaena dispansa''
Walker, 1861 India
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Comostola dyakaria''
(Walker, 1861) Borneo, Philippines, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, north-eastern Himalayas
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Comostola enodata''
Holloway, 1996 Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, Sulawesi, New Guinea
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Comostola haplophanes''
Turner, 1910 Australia
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Comostola hauensteini
''Comostola'' is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1888. They are found primarily in Asia and Australia.
Species
*'' Comostola cedilla'' Prout, 1917 New Guinea, Queensland, southern Moluccas, Sulawesi, Phili ...
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Smetacek, 2004 Kumaon
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Comostola hypotyphla''
Prout, 1917 India
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Comostola inops''
Prout, 1912 India
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Comostola iodioides''
(Lucas, 1891) Australia
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Comostola laesaria''
(Walker, 1861) Sri Lanka, India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Sundaland, northern Australia, Bismarck Archipelago
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Comostola leucomerata''
(Walker, 1866) Australia
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Comostola maculata''
(Moore, 1867) India
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Comostola meritaria''
(Walker, 1861) Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Sumatra, Borneo,
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Comostola minutata''
(Druce, 1888) Solomons, Bismarck Archipelago
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Comostola mundata''
Warren, 1896 India
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Comostola nereidaria''
(Snellen, 1881) Sulawesi, Borneo, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
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Comostola ocellulata''
Prout, 1920
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Comostola orestias''
Prout, 1934 Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia
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Comostola ovifera''
(Warren, 1893) India
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Comostola prasochroa
''Comostola'' is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1888. They are found primarily in Asia and Australia.
Species
*'' Comostola cedilla'' Prout, 1917 New Guinea, Queensland, southern Moluccas, Sulawesi, Phili ...
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(Turner, 1931) Australia
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Comostola pyrrhogona''
(Walker, 1866) India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, northern Australia, Norfolk Island
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Comostola rhodoselas
''Comostola'' is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1888. They are found primarily in Asia and Australia.
Species
*'' Comostola cedilla'' Prout, 1917 New Guinea, Queensland, southern Moluccas, Sulawesi, Phili ...
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(Prout) Samoa, Fiji
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Comostola satoi
''Comostola'' is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1888. They are found primarily in Asia and Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country c ...
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Inoue, 1986
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Comostola simplex''
(Warren) Java
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Comostola subtiliaria''
(Bremer, 1864) south-eastern Siberia, Korea, north-eastern Himalayas, southern China
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Comostola turgescens''
(Prout, 1917) north-eastern Himalayas, Sundaland, Sulawesi
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Comostola virago''
Prout, 1926 India
References
*Kandasamy, Gunathilagaraj (2016)
"Checklist of Indian Geometridae with FBI number".Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
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Hemitheini
Geometridae
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