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Comostola laesaria

Synonyms: Comostola perlepidaria; Eucrostis perlepidaria; Iodis laesaria; Jodis laesaria (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Comostola laesaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Sundaland, northern Australia and the Bismarck Archipelago. The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adults are green with several red dots on each wing. Larvae feed on the flowers of various plants, including Buchanania, Mangifera, Terminalia carolinensis, Melastomataceae, Melaleuca and Dimocarpus species. They are pale green or brown.
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Prey / Diet

Buchanania cochinchinensis (chirauli nut)[1]
Dimocarpus longan (longan)[1]
Mangifera indica (mango)[1]
Memecylon edule[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0