Hemithea marina

Hemithea marina is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.

[1] It is found in the Indian subregion, Sri Lanka[2] to Japan, Sundaland, Taiwan,[3] Sulawesi and Seram.

The caterpillar is brownish pink with dorsal blackish marks at the edges of the abdominal segments.

Body granular with minute white conical tubercles.

[4] The caterpillar is polyphagous and is known to feed on Acacia, Brassica, Citrus, Glycosmis, Hevea, Lantana camara, Mangifera indica, Memecylon and Tephrosia species.