''Scopula pulchellata'' is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, from 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 ...

to Taiwan and the Solomon Islands, as well as in Africa.

Description

Its wingspan is about 24 mm. Hindwings with more or less angled outer margin at vein 4. ochreous white colored moth. Frons fuscous. Forewings with a discocellular speck. Indistinct obliquely waved fuscous antemedial and medial lines, the latter on hindwing embracing the black discocellular spot. Both wings with waved postmedial line, with fuscous marks beyond it above middle of forewings and above inner margin of each wing. There is a sub-marginal fuscous marks series and a marginal black specks series.

Subspecies

*''Scopula pulchellata pulchellata'' *''Scopula pulchellata rufinubes'' (Warren, 1900) *''Scopula pulchellata semperi'' Prout, 1938 *''Scopula pulchellata takowensis'' Prout, 1938

References

Moths described in 1794 pulchellata Moths of Asia Moths of Africa {{Scopula-stub