Pingasa lahayei (Oberthür, 1887)

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FAMILY Geometridae
SUBFAMILY Geometrinae
GENUS Pingasa
SPECIES lahayei
AUTHOR(Oberthür, 1887)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONHypochroma Lahayei Ch. Obtr.
TYPE LOCALITYAlgeria, Province of Oran, Aïn-Sefra, iv.1886, leg. Lahaye.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♂, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Oberthür C. 1887-1888. Descriptions de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères algériens. - Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France (6) 7:xlvii-xlix, lvii-lix, lxvii-lxviii, lxxvi, lxxxiii-lxxxiv, xcix-c.
PAGINATION lix

Species pictures

Subspecies

NAME AUTHOR STATUS
austrina Prout L. B., 1917 Subspecies
multispurcata Prout L. B., 1913 Subspecies

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Algeria Hoggar and Tassili Speidel W. & Hassler M. 1989. Die Schmetterlingsfauna der südlichen algerischen Sahara und ihrer Hochgebirge Hoggar und Tassili n'Ajjer (Lepidoptera). - Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo Supplement 8:1-156. 51
Bahrain   Wiltshire E. P. 1964. The Lepidoptera of Bahrain. - Journal of the Bombay natural History Society 61(1):119-141, pls 1-3. 139 (as multispurcata)
Cape Verde Santiago Traub B. 1987. Die Geometroidea des Kapverdischen Inseln (Insects: Lepidoptera). - Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 95:87-90. 89
Eswatini   Hacker H. H. 2016a. Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Macroheterocera and Cossoidea Leach, [1815], Zygaenoidea Latreille, 1809, Thyridoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1846 and Hyblaeoidea Hampson, 1903 of the Arabian Peninsula, with a survey of their distribution (Lepid.). - Esperiana 20(1):1-742; (2): 1-430. 62
Ethiopia   Hausmann A., Parisi F. & Sciarretta A. 2014. The geometrid moths of Ethiopia I: tribes Pseudoterpnini and Comibaenini (Lepidptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae). - Zootaxa 3768(4):460-468. 462
Gambia   Prout L. B. 1917b. New Geometridae in the Joicey collection. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 20(115):108-128, pl. 7. 111 (as austrina)
Malawi     ZSM (as austrina)
Nigeria   Hausmann A. 1996a. The morphology of the Geometrid moths of the Levant and its neighbouring countries (Part 1: Orthostixinae-Geometrinae). - Nota lepidopterologica 19(1-2):3-90. 14 (as multispurcta)
Oman   Wiltshire E. P. 1985b. New Heterocera from Oman (with a revised list of the moths known from the Musandam Peninsula). - Journal of Oman Studies 7:39-48. 42 (as multispurcata)
Saudi Arabia   Wiltshire E. P. 1980a. Lepidoptera: Fam. Cossidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae, Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Geometridae, Lymantriidae, Nolidae, Arctiidae, Agaristidae, Noctuidae, Ctenuchidae. - In: Wittmer & Büttiker (eds.), Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2:179-240. 190 (as multispurcta)
Senegal   Sircoulomb G. 2009. Chiasmia gueyei n. sp., une nouvelle espèce afrotropicale (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). - Entomologia Africana 14(2):54-58, pl. 1. 56 (as austrina)
Sierra Leone     R. Revell
South Africa   Hacker H. H. 2016a. Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Macroheterocera and Cossoidea Leach, [1815], Zygaenoidea Latreille, 1809, Thyridoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1846 and Hyblaeoidea Hampson, 1903 of the Arabian Peninsula, with a survey of their distribution (Lepid.). - Esperiana 20(1):1-742; (2): 1-430. 62
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 (as multispucrata)
Western Sahara   Rungs Ch. 1992. Premier aperçu sur la faune des lépidoptères du Sahara occidental. - Alexanor 17:335-382. 360
Yemen   Hausmann A. 1999. Geometrid moth species from Yemen (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). - Esperiana 7:283-305, pls. 1-5. 284 (as multispurcata)
Zimbabwe   Hacker H. H. 2016a. Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Macroheterocera and Cossoidea Leach, [1815], Zygaenoidea Latreille, 1809, Thyridoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1846 and Hyblaeoidea Hampson, 1903 of the Arabian Peninsula, with a survey of their distribution (Lepid.). - Esperiana 20(1):1-742; (2): 1-430. 62

Notes:  Oriental: India, Pakistan; Palaearctic: Algeria, Iran, Morocco, Spain.

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Rhamnaceae Ziziphus sp.   Wiltshire E. P. 1990. An illustrated, annotated catalogue of the Macro-Heterocera of Saudi Arabia. - In: Büttiker, W. & Krupp, F. (Eds.). Fauna of Saudi Arabia. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 11:91-250. 107
Anacardiaceae Rhus sp.   Wiltshire E. P. 1990. An illustrated, annotated catalogue of the Macro-Heterocera of Saudi Arabia. - In: Büttiker, W. & Krupp, F. (Eds.). Fauna of Saudi Arabia. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 11:91-250. 107
Anacardiaceae Sclerocarya birrea   Duke N. J. & Duke A. D. 1998. An annotated list of larval host-plants utilized by southern African Geometridae (Lepidoptera). - Metamorphosis 9(1):5-22.