Amblychia hymenaria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Amblychia
- Species
- Amblychia hymenaria
- Scientific Name
- Amblychia hymenaria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Amblychia hymenaria
Amblychia hymenaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is found in India, Singapore, Sundaland, Sulawesi, Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia and may be in Sri Lanka.
The wingspan of the female is 42 mm. The male has bipectinate (comb-like on both sides) antennae, and the female has filiform (thread-like) antennae. Both sexes have brownish wings with white dots and irrorations (speckles). However, in the male, the diffuse, oblique band which cross the forewing from the center of the costa to the tornal angle is off white, and it is white in female. The caterpillar is known to feed on Cinnamomum iners.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Amblychia angeronaria
- Amblychia atropunctata
- Amblychia cavimargo
- Amblychia exalbata
- Amblychia fushana
- Amblychia hymenaria
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- Amblychia insueta
- Amblychia lutulenta
- Amblychia moltrechti
- Amblychia nanlingana
- Amblychia nefrens
- Amblychia nimia
- Amblychia pallida
- Amblychia pardicelata
- Amblychia picaria
- Amblychia praestans
- Amblychia praeumbrata
- Amblychia rotundata
- Amblychia sauteri
- Amblychia schistacea
- Amblychia sommereri
- Amblychia subrubida
- Amblychia yuwanina

































