Pingasa rhadamaria
| Pingasa rhadamaria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Pingasa |
| Species: | P. rhadamaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, [1858])[1] | |
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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)
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- ↑ 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
- ↑ Afro Moths
- ↑ African Moths
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