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Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)

Permalink:	OARPRATA
Higher taxa:	Geometridae (family)/ Sterrhinae (subfamily)/ Scopulini (tribe)/ Oar (genus)/
Status:	Accepted
Authorship:	(Fabricius, 1794)
Citation:	P.[halaena] pratana
Original genus:	Phalaena
Publication:	Fabricius J. C. 1794. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adjectis synonymis, Locis, observationibus, descriptionibus.
Journal:	—
Volume:	3
Issue:	2
Pagination:	161
URL:	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55388344

Scientific name	TypeStatus	Gender	Museum	Description	Country	Locality	Publication	URL
Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)	Syntype	unknown	ZMUC	Syntypes, ZMUC.		[Africa N], "Habitat in Barbaria Dom. Desfontaines".

Distribution note:

Palaearctic: Canary Islands, Egypt (Sinai), Israel, Morocco. The record of Yemen, Socotra (H. Rebel 1907a: 101), refers to Oar tertia Hausmann, 2009.

Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra.

Scientific name	Country	Province	Publication	URL
Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)	Saudi Arabia		Wiltshire E. P. 1980a. Lepidoptera: Fam. Cossidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae, Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Geometridae, Lymantriidae, Nolidae, Arctiidae, Agaristidae, Noctuidae, Ctenuchidae. – In: Wittmer & Büttiker (eds.), Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2. page 192 (as obscuraria)
Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)	Sudan		Rebel H. & Zerny H. 1917. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der mit Unterstützung der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien aus der Erbschaft Treitl von F. Werner unternommenen zoologischen Expedition nach dem anglo-ägyptischen Sudan (Kordofan), 1914. 1. Lepidoptera. page 433
Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)	Western Sahara		Rungs Ch. 1992. Premier aperçu sur la faune des lépidoptères du Sahara occidental. page 361
Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)	Yemen		Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. page 268 (as nigrescens)
Oar pratana oppressa (Walker, 1870)	Sudan		Walker F. 1870. A list of the Lepidoptera collected by J. K. Lord, Esq., in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the species new to science. page 154
Oar pratana oppressa (Walker, 1870)	Yemen		Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. page 268 (as nigrescens)

Scientific name	Plant	Plant Family	Country	Publication	URL
Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)	Salsola vermiculata	Amaranthaceae		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). page 84
Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)	Suaeda vera	Chenopodiaceae		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). page 84
Oar pratana (Fabricius, 1794)	Suaeda vermiculata	Chenopodiaceae		Wiltshire E. P. 1990. An illustrated, annotated catalogue of the Macro-Heterocera of Saudi Arabia. – In: Büttiker, W. & Krupp, F. (Eds.). Fauna of Saudi Arabia. page 118

Scientific name	Parasitoid	Parasitoid Family	Country	Publication	URL

Scientific Name	Authorship	Rank	Status	Original Combination
Oar pratana nigrescens (Hampson, 1896)	(Hampson, 1896)	subspecies	Synonym	Emmiltis pratana nigrescens
Oar pratana obscuraria (Bethune-Baker, 1894)	(Bethune-Baker, 1894)	subspecies	Synonym	Fidonia pratana obscuraria
Oar pratana oppressa (Walker, 1870)	(Walker, 1870)	subspecies	Accepted	Coremia pratana oppressa

Scientific Name	Authorship	Rank	Status	Original Combination