''Glaucoclystis sinuosa'' 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 ...
in the family
Geometridae first described by
Charles Swinhoe in 1895. It is found in the north-eastern
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...
.
Subspecies
*''Glaucoclystis sinuosa sinuosa''
*''Glaucoclystis sinuosa nigrilineata''
(Hampson, 1896)
*''Glaucoclystis sinuosa reddita''
(Prout, 1958)
References
External links
*Original description: Swinhoe, C. (1895)
"New Species of Indian Epiplemidae, Geometridae, Thyrididae, and Pyralidae" ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. (6) 16 :295.
Moths described in 1895
Eupitheciini
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