Collix hypospilata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Collix |
| Species: | C. hypospilata
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Description
editIts wingspan is about 40 millimetres (1.6 in). Palpi with the second joint reaching far beyond the frontal tuft. Mid tibia of male very much dilated and with a deep groove. Abdomen long, with a large anal tuft. The male is dark fuscous with a slight purplish tinge. Wings with numerous indistinct waved black lines. Forewings with a prominent discocellulars boss of raised scales. The veins speckled with pale brown between waved lines. Hindwings with small discocellular spots. Both wings with submarginal series of pale brown specks and a black marginal line interrupted by pale specks at the vein. Ventral side fuscous brown. Both wings with very prominent black cell-spot, less prominent curved postmedial band. There is a prominent submarginal black spot series. A spot found between vein 3 and 4 absent.[3]
Female often with brownish ground color or with brown patches in the cell of forewings and forming an obscure postmedial band to both wings.[4]
References
edit- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Collix hypospilata Guenee 1857". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on July 26, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Collix hypospilata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Choi, Sei-Woong; Na, Sang-Hyun (July 2011). "A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea" (PDF). Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology. 27 (2): 164–166. doi:10.5635/KJSZ.2011.27.2.164. ISSN 2233-7687.