Pingasa chlora
| Pingasa chlora | |
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| 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] | |
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The White Looper Moth or Flower-eating caterpillar (Pingasa chlora) is a species of moth of the Geometridae family. 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
- Pingasa chlora chlora (Stoll, 1782) (=)
- Pingasa chlora candidaria Warren, 1894
- Pingasa chlora subdentata Warren, 1894
- Pingasa chlora sublimbata (Butler, 1882)
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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