Pingasa lahayei

Pingasa lahayei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Pingasa
Species: P. lahayei
Binomial name
Pingasa lahayei
(Oberthür, 1887)[1]
Synonyms
  • Hypochroma lahayei Oberthür, 1887

Pingasa lahayei is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Spain,[2] North Africa[3] and tropical Africa, including Gambia.[4]

The larvae feed on Rhus tripartita and Zizyphus lotus.[5]

Subspecies

Pingasa multispurcata is often treated as a subspecies of Pingasa lahayei.

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. Fauna Europaea
  3. LepIndex
  4. Afro Moths
  5. Pingasa at funet


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