Brachyglossina sonyae Wiltshire, 1990
FAMILY | Geometridae |
SUBFAMILY | Sterrhinae |
GENUS | Brachyglossina |
SPECIES | sonyae |
AUTHOR | Wiltshire, 1990 |
ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Brachyglossina sonyae n. sp. |
TYPE LOCALITY | Saudi Arabia NW, Al Lawz, 12.xi.1988, leg. W. Büttiker. |
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, NHBM; Paratypes 1♂, 1♀, genitalia slides E. P. Wiltshire 284♂, 291♀, NHMB. |
STATUS | Species |
PUBLICATION | 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. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 11:91–250. |
PAGINATION | 117, figs 502, 529, 530 |
Species pictures


Species Distribution
COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Oman | Hausmann A. 1998a. New and interesting geometrid moths from the Oman (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). - Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 88:85–98. | 88 | |
Saudi Arabia | 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. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 11:91–250. | 117 | |
Yemen | Hausmann A. 1999. Geometrid moth species from Yemen (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). - Esperiana 7:283–305, pls. 1–5. | 290 |
Host Plants
FAMILY | SPECIES | COUNTRY | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Undefined | Undefined Polyphagous | 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). - Esperiana 20:61–138. | 83 |