Pingasa ruginaria

Pingasa ruginaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Pseudoterpnini
Genus: Pingasa
Species: P. ruginaria
Binomial name
Pingasa ruginaria
(Guenée, 1857)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hypochroma ruginaria Guenée, 1857
  • Hypochroma perfectaria Walker, 1860
  • Pingasa ruginaria andamanica Prout, 1916
  • Pingasa ruginaria pacifica Inoue, 1964
  • Hypochroma nyctemerata Walker, 1860
  • Hypochroma batiaria Plötz, 1880

Pingasa ruginaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in northern India, south-east Asia, the Ryukyu Islands and Sundaland.

The larvae have been recorded on Rhus, Liquidambar, Cinnamomum, Litsea, Crotalaria, Nephelium, Trema and Sterculiaceae species.

Subspecies

References

  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

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