Scopula adelpharia (Püngeler, 1894)

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FAMILY	Geometridae
SUBFAMILY	Sterrhinae
GENUS	Scopula
SPECIES	adelpharia
AUTHOR	(Püngeler, 1894)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Acidalia adelpharia n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY	[Israel], Palestine, Jericho, 23.iii.1892, leg. P. Püngeler.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Syntypes 1♂, 2♀.
STATUS	Species
COMMENT	Transferred to Scopula by L. B. Prout (1934, in Strand Lepidopterorum Catalogus 63: 262). Previously misidentified as Scopula minorata ochroleucaria(Herrich-Schäffer, 1847) by Wiltshire (1980), see Hausmann, Stadie & Fiebig (2016: 92).
PUBLICATION	Püngeler R. 1894. Acidalia adelpharia n. sp. - Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 55:76–77.
PAGINATION	76–77

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
pharaonis	Sterneck, 1933	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Djibouti		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.	92
Egypt		Sterneck J. 1933. Studien über Acidaliinae (Geometr.). I. Fortsetzung und Schluß. - Zeitschrift des Österreichischen Entomologischen Vereins 18:9–15.	9 (as pharaonis)
Ethiopia		Fletcher D. S. 1978a. Geometridae (Lepidoptera) collected by Dr. J. Szunyoghy in Tanzania. - Acta Zoologica Hungarica 24(1–2):41–105, pl. 1.	503
Gambia			New record (R. Goff)
Kenya		Fletcher D. S. 1978a. Geometridae (Lepidoptera) collected by Dr. J. Szunyoghy in Tanzania. - Acta Zoologica Hungarica 24(1–2):41–105, pl. 1.	503
Oman		Wiltshire E. P. 1977b. The scientific results of the Oman flora and fauna survey 1975. Lepidoptera: Part I Families Cossidae, Pyralidae, Geometridae, Sphingidae, Arctiidae, Lymantriidae and Noctuidae. Part II A list of further Lepidoptera-Heterocera from Oman. Part III Pyral... - Journal of Oman Studies Special Rep. 1:155–178.	166
Saudi Arabia		Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896(1):257–283, pl. 10.	267 (as actuaria)
Somalia		Fletcher D. S. 1978a. Geometridae (Lepidoptera) collected by Dr. J. Szunyoghy in Tanzania. - Acta Zoologica Hungarica 24(1–2):41–105, pl. 1.	503
Sudan		Wiltshire E. P. 1985c. New Geometridae from Africa, with a list of additions to the Lepidoptera fauna of the Sudan (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). - Entomofauna 6(2):9–22.	14
Tanzania, United Republic of		Fletcher D. S. 1978a. Geometridae (Lepidoptera) collected by Dr. J. Szunyoghy in Tanzania. - Acta Zoologica Hungarica 24(1–2):41–105, pl. 1.	58
United Arab Emirates		Legrain A. & Wiltshire E. P. 1998. Provisional checklist of the Macro-Heterocera (Lepidoptera) of the UAE. - Tribulus 8(2):5–8.	5
Yemen		Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896(1):257–283, pl. 10.	267 (as actuaria)
Yemen	Socotra	Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31–130, pl. 1.	98 (as ochroleucata)

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Convolvulaceae	Convolvulus sp.		Hausmann A. & Skou P. 2008. Order Lepidoptera, family Geometridae. – In: van Harten, A. (ed.) Arthropod fauna of the UAE Volume I. - — 1 (2007):562–590.	573
Fabaceae	Prosopis sp.		Hausmann A. & Skou P. 2008. Order Lepidoptera, family Geometridae. – In: van Harten, A. (ed.) Arthropod fauna of the UAE Volume I. - — 1 (2007):562–590.	573
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.	92