Pingasa chlora

Pingasa chlora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Pseudoterpnini
Genus: Pingasa
Species: P. chlora
Binomial name
Pingasa chlora
(Stoll, [1782])[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena chlora Stoll, 1782
  • Hypochroma sublimbata Butler, 1882
  • Pingasa candidaria Warren, 1894
  • Pingasa latifascia Warren, 1894
  • Pingasa subdentata Warren, 1894
  • Pseudoterpna ecchloraria Hubner, 1823
  • Hypochroma chloraria Guenée, [1858]
  • Pseudoterpna ecchloraria Hübner, [1823]
  • Hypochroma paulinaria Pagenstecher, 1885

Pingasa chlora, the white looper moth or flower-eating caterpillar, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found Sundaland, the Philippines, Sulawesi and from the Moluccas to Queensland.

Larvae have been reared on leaves of Euroschinus and from Flindersia species. It is considered a pest on Nephelium lappaceum and Litchi chinensis in Australia. Other recorded food plants include Euroschinus falcata, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa and Flindersia schottiana.

Subspecies

References

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  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

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