Ardonis filicata

Ardonis filicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Ardonis
Species:	A. filicata
Binomial name
	Ardonis filicata; (C. Swinhoe, 1892)[1]
Synonyms
	Eupithecia filicata C. Swinhoe, 1892 ; Ceratorhynchus deletarius Hampson, 1893 ; Chloroclystis mochleutes L. B. Prout, 1958 ;

Ardonis filicata is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1892. It is found in the north-eastern Himalayas and Borneo and Sulawesi.[2]

The wingspan is about 30 mm. Adults are green. The forewings have a black patch on the base of the costa and irregular black antemedial, medial and postmedial lines. The hindwings have a curved black antemedial line.[3]

Subspecies

Ardonis filicata filicata (north-eastern Himalaya, Borneo)
Ardonis filicata mochleutes (Prout, 1958) (Sulawesi)

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References

Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ardonis filicata (Swinhoe 1892)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016.
Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Ardonis filicata Swinhoe comb. n." The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis. p. 393 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

External links

Original description: Swinhoe, Charles (1892). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London: 1-2.

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[1] Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ardonis filicata (Swinhoe 1892)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016.

[2] Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Ardonis filicata Swinhoe comb. n." The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved February 15, 2019.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis. p. 393 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.