Xylopteryx arcuata (Walker, 1862)

FAMILY	Geometridae
SUBFAMILY	Ennominae
GENUS	Xylopteryx
SPECIES	arcuata
AUTHOR	(Walker, 1862)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Larentia ? arcuata
TYPE LOCALITY	[South Africa, Cape Province], Cape, leg. A. Smith.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Walker F. 1862a. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXIV.- Geometrites (continued). - — 24:i-iv, 1021-1280.
PAGINATION	1191-1192

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
albimaculata	(Warren, 1902)	Synonym of species
laticinctata	(Walker, 1862)	Synonym of species
sublectata	(Walker, 1862)	Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Ethiopia			ZSM
Kenya		Warren W. 1902b. New African Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. - Novitates Zoologicae 9:487-536.	526 (as albimaculata)
South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal	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.	398
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.	398
South Africa	Free State	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.	398
South Africa	Western Cape	Walker F. 1862a. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXIV.- Geometrites (continued). - — 24:i-iv, 1021-1280.	1192
Zimbabwe		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.	398

Notes: The record of Saudi Arabia (Wiltshire 1980a: 199) refers to Xylopteryx guichardi Wiltshire, 1982 (see E. P. Wiltshire 1982a: 308).

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Anacardiaceae	Rhus villosa	South Africa	Platt E. E. 1921. List of foodplants of some South African lepidopterous larvae. - South African Journal of Natural History 3(1):65-138.	90
Anacardiaceae	Searsia dentata	South Africa	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.	398
Anacardiaceae	Searsia lucida	South Africa	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.	398
Anacardiaceae	Searsia pyroides	South Africa	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.	398
Sapindaceae	Allophylus natalensis	South Africa	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.	398
Anacardiaceae	Searsia burchellii	South Africa	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.	398
Capparidaceae	Maerua sp.	East Africa	Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 35(311):94-100; (313) 177-195.	195
Celastraceae	Maytenus sp.	East Africa	Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 35(311):94-100; (313) 177-195.	195
Capparidaceae	Maerua sp.	Kenya	Townsend A. L. H. 1938. Further notes on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13(5):168-182.	179 (as albimaculata)
Celastraceae	Gymnosporia sp.	Kenya	Townsend A. L. H. 1938. Further notes on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13(5):168-182.	179 (as albimaculata)

* Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1938: 179).