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Pingasa rhadamaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Geometridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Pingasa

Similar
  
Pingasa, Pingasa ruginaria, Scopula

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, Cameroon, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

The larvae feed on Ziziphus jujube and Ziziphus mauritiana.

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

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