Chiasmia arenosa (Butler, 1875)
| FAMILY | Geometridae |
| SUBFAMILY | Ennominae |
| GENUS | Chiasmia |
| SPECIES | arenosa |
| AUTHOR | (Butler, 1875) |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Aspilates arenosa, n. sp. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | [South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal], Natal. |
| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Syntypes ♂, BMNH. |
| STATUS | Species |
| PUBLICATION | Butler A. G. 1875b. On a collection of Lepidoptera from southern Africa, with descriptions of new genera and species. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 16(96):394-420. |
| PAGINATION | 419 |
Synonyms
| NAME | AUTHOR | STATUS |
| bitaeniata | (Warren, 1914) | Synonym of species |
| sordidata | (Warren, 1897) | Synonym of species |
Species Distribution
| COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| South Africa | KwaZulu-Natal | Butler A. G. 1875b. On a collection of Lepidoptera from southern Africa, with descriptions of new genera and species. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 16(96):394-420. | 419 |
| South Africa | Eastern Cape | Krüger M. 2019b. Geometridae (Lepidoptera, Geometroidea). - In: Mey W. & Krüger M. (Eds), The Lepidoptera fauna of a crater valley in the Great Escarpment of South Africa: The Asante Sana Project. - Esperiana Memoir 8:365-410. | 394 |
| Zimbabwe | Krüger M. 2001a. A revision of the tribe Macariini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) of Africa, Madagascar and Arabia. - Bulletin of The Natural History Museum 70(1):1-502. | 267 |
Host Plants
| FAMILY | SPECIES | COUNTRY | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| Fabaceae | Acacia caffra | South Africa | Parsons M. S., Scoble M. J., Honey M. R., Pitkin L. M. & Pitkin B. R. 1999. Geometrid moths of the world. A catalogue (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). [Edited by M. J. Scoble]. - — 2 volumes:i-xxv, 1-482, 483-1016, index: 1-129. | 127 |
