Cleora injectaria

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.

Cleora injectaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Cleora
Species:
C. injectaria
Binomial name
Cleora injectaria
Walker, 1860
Synonyms
  • Boarmia injectaria

Description

The 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

References
  1. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (15 November 2012). "Cleora injectaria (Walker, 1860)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. "Polymorphism and populations: Cleora injectaria (Walker, 1860) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) at Mai Po Nature Reserve, Hong Kong". HKU Biodiversity and Ecology. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  4. Jeremy Daniel Holloway. "Cleora injectaria". Southdene Sdn. Bhd. Retrieved 2008-12-05.


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