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Eois lunulosa
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Eois lunulosa

Eois lunulosa is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

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Description

Its wingspan is about 22–26 mm. The antennae in both sexes is bipectinate (comblike on both sides) with long branches to two-thirds of their length. It has hindwings with rounded outer margins. Veins 3 and 4 are stalked. Vertex of the head as well as the frons are chestnut colored. The shaft of the antennae are whitish. Collar is crimson coloured. Forewings with a sub-costal crimson fascia. Both wings with many of the waved lines obsolescent, and medial and postmedial lines more developed. An ill-defined marginal crimson band has a purplish-silvery patch at outer angle.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 734299.