| Pingasa lahayei | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Pingasa |
| Species: | P. lahayei |
| Binomial name | |
| Pingasa lahayei | |
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Pingasa lahayei is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Charles Oberthür in 1887. It is found in Spain,[2] North Africa[3] and tropical Africa, including the Gambia.[4]
The larvae feed on Rhus tripartita and Zizyphus lotus.[5]
Subspecies
- Pingasa lahayei lahayei (southern Spain, North Africa)
- Pingasa lahayei austrina Prout, 1917 (tropical Africa, including the Gambia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Eswatini)
Pingasa multispurcata is often treated as a subspecies of Pingasa lahayei.
References
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- ↑ Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (June 11, 2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150 (2): 334–412. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pingasa lahayei". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
- ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Pingasa lahayei (Oberthür, 1887)". Afromoths. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
- ↑ Savela, Markku. "Pingasa lahayei Oberthür, 1887". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
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