Eucrostes

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Eucrostes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Hemitheini
Genus: Eucrostes
Hübner, [1823]
Type species
Eucrostes indigenata (Villers, 1789)
Synonyms
  • Euchrostis Zeller, 1872 (emend.)
  • Euchrostes Gumppenberg, 1887 (emend.)

Eucrostes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823.

Description

Palpi reaching just beyond the frons and roughly scaled. Antennae of male bipectinate (comb like on both sides) for two-thirds of their length. Hind tibia with one spur pair in both sexes. Forewings with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell and vein 6 from upper angle. Veins 7, 8, 9 and 10 stalked and vein 11 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 12. Hindwings with frenulum absent. The outer margin rounded. Veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked.[1]

Species

Former species

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.