Agathia hemithearia Guenée is a animal in the Geometridae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Agathia hemithearia Guenée

Agathia hemithearia Guenée

Agathia hemithearia Guenée is a moth with a ~36 mm wingspan and distinct rufous, green, and fuscous wing markings.

Family
Genus
Agathia
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Agathia hemithearia Guenée

This moth species has a wingspan of approximately 36 millimeters. All visible markings on the moth are rufous in color. The thorax and abdomen feature heavier marking than other body regions. The forewings have a medial band of consistent width that angles at the median nervure. Both the forewings and hindwings have a rufous outer area that is irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous. This outer area is crossed by a wavy grey postmedial line, which encloses a series of connected sub-marginal green patches. These patches lie below the apex of each wing, and are also found near the inner margin of the hindwings. A green area extends a prominent tooth-shaped projection into the rufous area at vein 5 and below vein 2 on each wing. The ocellus is reduced to a pale line that crosses the tail. The ventral side of the moth has purplish fuscous markings.

Photo: (c) Vijay Anand Ismavel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · cc-by-nc-sa

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Geometridae Agathia

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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