Problepsis virginalis (Prout L. B., 1917)

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FAMILY	Geometridae
SUBFAMILY	Sterrhinae
GENUS	Problepsis
SPECIES	virginalis
AUTHOR	(Prout L. B., 1917)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Somatina virginalis spec. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY	Uganda, Entebbe.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
COMMENT	Transferred to Problepsis by Sihvonen et al. (2020: 611).
PUBLICATION	Prout L. B. 1917c. New African Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24:428–436.
PAGINATION	430

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Angola		Prout L. B. 1917c. New African Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24:428–436.	430
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the		Prout L. B. 1917c. New African Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24:428–436.	430
Gambia			New record (R. Goff)
Kenya		Prout L. B. 1917c. New African Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24:428–436.	430
Malawi		Prout L. B. 1917c. New African Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24:428–436.	430
Sierra Leone		Prout L. B. 1917c. New African Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24:428–436.	430
Tanzania, United Republic of		Prout L. B. 1917c. New African Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24:428–436.	430
Uganda		Prout L. B. 1917c. New African Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24:428–436.	430
Yemen		Hausmann A. 1999. Geometrid moth species from Yemen (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). - Esperiana 7:283–305, pls. 1–5.	294
Zimbabwe		Prout L. B. 1932a. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911–1912). Insectes Lépidoptères. III. Geometridae. - Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France 29(5):375–512.	394

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Oleaceae	Jasminum sp.		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.	99