Scopula pulchellata

Scopula pulchellata

"Scopula pulchellata" is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, from India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan and the Solomon Islands, as well as in Africa.
White geometer moth (Idaea) in Sri lanka Still working on the identification. I particularly love the delicate and precise decoration on this one. Found during the day in Sri Lanka in some shrubs. Given its wing position I think it's a geometer, but which one? Asia,Scopula pulchellata,Sri Lanka,Wasgamuwa

Appearance

Its wingspan is about 24 mm. Hindwings with more or less angled outer margin at vein 4. ochreous white colored moth. Frons fuscous. Forewings with a discocellular speck. Indistinct obliquely waved fuscous antemedial and medial lines, the latter on hindwing embracing the black discocellular spot. Both wings with waved postmedial line, with fuscous marks beyond it above middle of forewings and above inner margin of each wing. There is a sub-marginal fuscous marks series and a marginal black specks series.

Naming

*"Scopula pulchellata pulchellata"
⤷ "Scopula pulchellata rufinubes"
⤷ "Scopula pulchellata semperi" Prout, 1938
⤷ "Scopula pulchellata takowensis" Prout, 1938

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyGeometridae
GenusScopula
SpeciesS. pulchellata
Photographed in
Sri Lanka