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Idaea testacea Swinhoe, 1885

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Higher taxa: Geometridae (family)/  Sterrhinae (subfamily)/  Sterrhini (tribe)/  Idaea (genus)/ 
Status:Accepted
Authorship:Swinhoe, 1885
Citation:Eupithecia testacea, n. sp.
Original genus:Idaea
Publication:Swinhoe C. 1885c. On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan. Heterocera.
Journal:Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
Volume:1885
Issue:2
Pagination:863; pl. 57, fig. 15
URL:https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28697920
Taxonomic note:

Identification of Arabian specimens doubtful and requiring verification (see H. Hacker & A. Hausmann 1999: 100, A. Hausmann 2006: 23).

Hacker H. H. & Hausmann A. 1999. Geometridae. – In: Hacker H. H., Systematic list of the Lepidoptera of the Arabian Peninsula with a survey of the spread with special reference to the fauna of Yemen.
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Idaea testacea Swinhoe, 1885 Syntype unknown NHMUK Syntypes, NHMUK. India India, Poona, x.
Distribution note:

Oriental: India. Records of Yemen (Walsingham, 1896: 267) and Socotra (Rebel, 1907a: 99) are erroneous (see A. Hausmann, D. Stadie and R. Fiebig (2016: 82).

Hausmann A., Stadie D. & Fiebig R. 2016. Family Geometridae Leach, [1815]. – In: Hacker H. (Ed.), Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Macroheterocera and Cossoidea, Zygaenoidea, Thyridoidea and Hyblaeoidea of the Arabia Peninsula, with a survey of their distribution (Lepidoptera).
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