Comostola pyrrhogona
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| taxon = Comostola pyrrhogona
| authority = (Walker, 1866)
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|Eucrostis pyrrhogona|Walker, 1866
|Jodis marginata|Lucas, 1895
|Pyrrhorachis cornuta|Warren, 1896
|Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona augustata|Prout, 1917
|Pyrrhorachis cornuta callicrossa|Prout, 1934
|Pyrrhorachis cornuta pisochlora|Prout, 1934
|Pyrrhorachis cornuta woodfordi|Prout, 1934
|Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona succornuta|Prout, 1937
|Pyrrhorachis cornuta exquisitata|D. S. Fletcher, 1957
|Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona subcrenulata|Holloway, 1977
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Comostola pyrrhogona is a moth of the family Geometridae described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics from India, Sri Lanka to Taiwan, and east to Vanuatu, New Caledonia, northern Australia and Norfolk Island.
Description
The wingspan is about 15–18 mm. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 stalked. Antennae of male bipectinated (comb like on both sides) to two-thirds length. Palpi with second and third joints long and slender. Forewings with straight discocellulars. Veins 3, 4 and 6 to 11 stalked. Female pale bluish. Head rufous. A rufous dorsal stripe found on vertex of thorax and abdomen. Forewings with costa, and both wings with the outer margin are orange reddish, with black scales and spots irrorated (sprinkled) with silver. Ventral side whitish.{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1895 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma |volume=Moths Volume III |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} Male genitalia include a slender spine enfolded in the sacculus.{{cite web | url=http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-9/geometrini/geometrini_48_9.php | title=Comostola pyrrhogona Walker comb. n. | website=The Moths of Borneo | accessdate=5 October 2016}}
References
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External links
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- {{cite journal |last1=Barnett |first1=L. K. |last2=Emms |first2=C. W. |last3=Holloway |first3=J. D. |name-list-style=amp |date=July 1, 1999 |title=The moths of the Chagos Archipelago with notes on their biogeography |journal=Journal of Natural History |volume=33 |issue=7 |pages=1021–1038 |doi=10.1080/002229399300065}}
- [http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/74_Geometridae/07_Geometrinae/47_Comostola/Comostola%20pyrrhogona/Comostola%20pyrrhogona.htm Moths of Asia]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
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Category:Moths described in 1866
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