Pitthea perspicua

Pitthea perspicua is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

Pitthea perspicua
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Pitthea
Species:
P. perspicua
Binomial name
Pitthea perspicua
Synonyms
  • Leucopsumis cryptochroma Walker, 1869
  • Tuerckheimia lynckerii Dewitz, 1881
  • Pitthea tamsi Bethune-Baker, 1927

The wingspan is about 44 mm. The forewings are black, with an oblique white-hyaline (glass-like) subapical bar. The hindwings are black, with the central area of the wing from the base to well beyond the cell, and from well above to well below the cell, bright deep ultramarine blue. The underside of the hindwings is yellow, almost to the termen, which is narrowly black, whilst the apical area is more broadly black.[2]

References
  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Pitthea perspicua (Linnaeus, 1758)". Afromoths. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  2. Bethune-Baker, G.T. (1927). "XLVI.—Descriptions of new species of Heterocera from Africa and the East". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 20 (118): 321–334. doi:10.1080/00222932708655457.
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