Neromia picticosta

Neromia picticosta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Tribe:	Geometrinae
Genus:	Neromia
Species:	N. picticosta
Binomial name
	Neromia picticosta; Prout, 1913

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 Tring. 20: 388–442. ISSN 0950-7655.

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[1] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Neromia picticosta Prout L. B., 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved March 28, 2019.

[2] Prout, Louis B. (1913). "Contributions to a knowledge of the subfamilies Oenochrominae and Hemitheinae of Geometridae". Novitates Zoologicae Tring. 20: 388–442. ISSN 0950-7655.

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