Rhodometra plectaria (Guenée, 1857)

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FAMILY Geometridae
SUBFAMILY Sterrhinae
GENUS Rhodometra
SPECIES plectaria
AUTHOR(Guenée, 1857)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONSterrha plectaria
TYPE LOCALITY[Ethiopia], Abyssinia, 1850, leg. W. Schimper.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♂, MNHN; Paratype 1♀, MNHN (see P. Viette 1950b: 205); Guenée mentioned many specimens "beaucoup d'exemplaires".
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Guenée A. M. 1858b. In: Boisduval, J. A. B. & Guenée, A. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Spécies général des Lépidoptères. X. Uranides et Phalénites. Tome II. - — 10:1-584.
PAGINATION 176-177; pl. 8, fig. 7

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Eritrea   Joannis J. de 1913. Materiali per lo studio della fauna Eritrea raccolti nel 1902-03 dal Dott. A. Andreini. Lépidoptères. Heterocera. - Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana 44 (1912):115-147. 137
Ethiopia   Guenée A. M. 1858b. In: Boisduval, J. A. B. & Guenée, A. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Spécies général des Lépidoptères. X. Uranides et Phalénites. Tome II. - — 10:1-584. 176
Kenya   Fawcett J. M. 1916. Notes on a collection of Heterocera made by Mr. W. Feather in British East Africa, 1911-13. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1916(4):707-737, pl. 1. 730

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