Neromia picticosta
| Neromia picticosta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Neromia |
| Species: | N. picticosta
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| Binomial name | |
| Neromia picticosta | |
Neromia picticosta is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1913. It is found in Madagascar.
It has a wingspan of 22 mm. The wings are dull bluish green, irrorated (sprinkled) with white. The face is dark red, the thorax and abdomen dorsally green.[2]
This species was described from a specimen from Antananarivo.
References
[edit]- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Neromia picticosta Prout L. B., 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
- ^ Prout, Louis B. (1913). "Contributions to a knowledge of the subfamilies Oenochrominae and Hemitheinae of Geometridae". Novitates Zoologicae. 20: 388–442. ISSN 0950-7655.
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