# Calluga costalis

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***Calluga costalis*** is a [moth](/source/Moth) of the family [Geometridae](/source/Geometridae). The species was first described by [Frederic Moore](/source/Frederic_Moore) in 1887. It is found in [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka), [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan),[2] [Borneo](/source/Borneo), [Bali](/source/Bali), [Sulawesi](/source/Sulawesi), [Seram](/source/Seram), [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea) and [Queensland](/source/Queensland).[3]

## Description

The [wingspan](/source/Wingspan) is about 12 mm in the male and 18 mm in the female. Palpi with the second joint reaching slightly beyond the frons. Hindwings with vein 3 from angle of cell or shortly stalked at vein 4. Male lack secondary sexual characters on the wings. Adults dark-green. Forewings with the rufous suffusion confined to the medial area, sometimes to its costal half. Both wings with the postmedial line prominently black with white outer edge, on forewing more evenly curved and waved. Submarginal pale waved line more prominent. The outer margin of hindwings sometimes evenly curved, or excised below apex. Ventral side lack rough scales on hindwings of male.[4]

## References

1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. ["*Calluga costalis* Moore 1887"](http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82843076). *Home of Ichneumonoidea*. Taxapad. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180725063648/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82843076) 25 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 July 2018.

1. ["此為 *Calluga costalis*"](http://twmoth.tesri.gov.tw/peo/MothQuery.aspx?F=Geometridae&G=Calluga&S=Calluga%20costalis). *Taiwan Moth Information Center*. Retrieved 29 September 2016.

1. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. ["*Calluga costalis* Moore"](http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-10/eupitheciini/eupitheciini_23_1.php). *The Moths of Borneo*. Retrieved 29 September 2016.

1. Hampson, G. F. (1895). [*The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III*](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up). Taylor and Francis. – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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