Cleora injectaria is a moth of the family Geometridae described by Francis Walker in 1860. It is found in the tropical regions of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, up to Fiji and New Caledonia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Cleora |
| Species: | C. injectaria
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| Cleora injectaria Walker, 1860
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Description
editThe wingspan is about 36–50 mm.[1] Adults are greyish or pale brown with variable complicated darker markings, with about nine color morphs.[2] It is known that there are about nine different color morphs in the C. alienaria complex - with the black and white banded forms, more abundant than grey, brown and white forms, plain forms and black discal spot forms.[3]
The larvae feed on mangrove vegetation of Rhizophora, Avicennia, Excoecaria and Xylocarpus species.[4]
Color morphs
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References
edit- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (15 November 2012). "Cleora injectaria (Walker, 1860)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Polymorphism and populations: Cleora injectaria (Walker, 1860) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) at Mai Po Nature Reserve, Hong Kong". HKU Biodiversity and Ecology. 18 October 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ Jeremy Daniel Holloway. "Cleora injectaria". Southdene Sdn. Bhd. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
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