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Cleora injectaria

Synonyms: Boarmia compactaria; Boarmia injectaria; Boarmia sublectaria

Wikipedia Abstract

Cleora injectaria is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in the tropical regions of the Indomalayan and Australasian ecozones, up to Fiji and New Caledonia. The wingspan is about 36-50 mm. Adults are greyish or pale brown with variable complicated darker markings. The larvae feed on mangrove vegetation of Rhizophora, Avicennia, Excoecaria and Xylocarpus species.
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Infraspecies

Cleora injectaria anidryta
Cleora injectaria dobboensis
Cleora injectaria fuliginosa
Cleora injectaria injectaria
Cleora injectaria vittata

Prey / Diet

Castanopsis fissa[1]
Kandelia obovata[2]
Rhizophora apiculata (mangrove)[1]
Rhizophora mucronata (mangrove)[1]

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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
♦ 2The herbivore assemblage, herbivory and leaf chemistry of the mangrove Kandelia obovata in two contrasting forests in Hong Kong, Y.F. Tong, S.Y. Lee and B. Morton, Wetlands Ecology and Management (2006) 14: 39–52
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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