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)

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