Opisthoxia metargyria

Opisthoxia metargyria

A moth of the family Geometridae. This unusual moth sports an overall white coloring with brown or black stripes and yellow hindwing tips with black dots.
Opisthoxia metargyria Dapa, Valle Del Cauca 2100m Opisthoxia metargyria

Appearance

Outer margin of the forewings with a black stripe proceeding from the submarginal point to the apex. Along the postdiscal, discal and basal areas of the forewings there are four more stripes, with a total of five.

The fourth stripe starting from the outer margin stripe of the forewings connect with the correspondent stripe on the hindwings. Second stripe from the outer margin follows along the hindwings' outer margin, briefly interrupted by an ocelus and yellow patch, continuing towards (but ending before) the inner margin. Postdiscal, discal and basal areas of the hindwings are made of around 4 stripes.

Tip of the hindwings, just below the yellow patches there is a large ocelus and a smaller ocelus to the side. Eyes are large, compound and green. Antennae short and the abdomen white.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyGeometridae
GenusOpisthoxia
SpeciesOpisthoxia metargyria
Photographed in
Brazil
Colombia