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Pingasa rhadamaria

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Pingasa rhadamaria
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P. rhadamaria
Binomial name
Pingasa rhadamaria
(Guenée, [1858])[1]
Synonyms
  • Hypochroma rhadamaria Guenée, [1858]
  • Hypochroma alterata Walker, 1860
  • Hypochroma attenuans Walker, 1860
  • Hypochroma signifrontaria Mabille, 1893

Pingasa rhadamaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found on the Comoros, Madagascar and São Tomé & Principe and in Sierra Leone, South Africa, Gambia, Zimbabwe,[2] Cameroon, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

The larvae feed on Ziziphus jujube and Ziziphus mauritiana.[3]

Subspecies

  • Pingasa rhadamaria rhadamaria (Madagascar)
  • Pingasa rhadamaria alterata (Walker, 1860) (Kenya, South Africa)
  • Pingasa rhadamaria attenuans (Walker, 1860) (Sierra Leone, São Tomé, Gambia)
  • Pingasa rhadamaria signifrontaria (Mabille, 1893) (the Comoros)
  • Pingasa rhadamaria victoria Prout, 1913 (Zimbabwe)

References

  1. ^ Pitkin, Linda M. ; Hongxiang Han & Shayleen James, 2007, Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 343-412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x
  2. ^ Afro Moths
  3. ^ African Moths