Lophophelma vigens is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. It is found in the Himalayas and on Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.[2][3] The habitat consists of lower and upper montane forests.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Lophophelma |
| Species: | L. vigens
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Adults have are rather uniform brown.[4]
Subspecies
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- Lophophelma vigens ruficoloraria (Warren, 1897)
References
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- ^ Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (June 11, 2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150 (2): 334–412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Lophophelma vigens". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
- ^ Digital Moths of Asia Archived 2013-04-15 at archive.today
- ^ Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Lophophelma vigens Butler comb. rev". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
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