''Comostolopsis subsimplex'' is a
moth of the family
Geometridae first described by
Louis Beethoven Prout in 1913. This species was described from
Madagascar.
This species has a bright orange face, bright orange palpus, the wings rather bright green, slightly darker
than in ''
Comostolopsis simplex'', the costal edge of forewing is extremely narrowly ochreous; both
wings bear a dark red discal dot and golden-yellow fringes. The forewing have two wavy, whitish, transverse
lines. The underside of the wings is whitish green, the forewing with decided red suffusion and yellowish fringes.
The wingspan is 16–18 mm.
[Prout, L. B. (1913)]
"Contributions to a knowledge of the subfamilies Oenochromidnae and Hemitheinae of Geometridae"
''Novitates Zoologicae''. 20 (2): 388–442.
See also
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List of moths of Madagascar
There are about 2,680 known moth species of Madagascar. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.
This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Madagascar. The ...
References
Moths described in 1913
Geometrinae
Lepidoptera of Madagascar
Moths of Madagascar
Moths of Africa
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