Scopula Roezaria
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''Scopula roezaria'' 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 first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1904. It is found on
Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
. This species has a wingspan of . Frons and palpi are chestnut red. The top of the head is white with a chestnut band behind. Body and wings are white, a costal line of the forewings is chestnut-red. A dentated grey discal line with black points across both wings, an indistinct submarginal line and black marginal points. The underside of both wings is white the forewings with the red costal line and some red suffusion on the costal space, discal line red and marginal line of both wings red.Swinhoe, C. (1904)
"On the Geometridae of tropical Africa in the National Collection"
''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 1904 (3): 557.


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