Pingasa nobilis

Pingasa nobilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Pingasa
Species: P. nobilis
Binomial name
Pingasa nobilis
Prout, 1913[1]

Pingasa nobilis is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Australia (Queensland) and New Guinea.[2]

Adults have mottled grey wings with scalloped edges. The margins have broad brown borders, each with one grey patch. There are two dark zig-zag lines across the forewings and one across the hindwings.[3]

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
  2. LepIndex
  3. Australian Insects


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