Phaiogramma discessa (Walker, 1861)

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FAMILY Geometridae
SUBFAMILY Geometrinae
GENUS Phaiogramma
SPECIES discessa
AUTHOR(Walker, 1861)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONIodis [sic] discessa
TYPE LOCALITY[India], North Hindostan, ex coll. Stevens.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♀, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Walker F. 1861a. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXII.- Geometrites (continued). - — 22:i-iv, 499-755.
PAGINATION 544 Bhl

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Bahrain   Wiltshire E. P. 1964. The Lepidoptera of Bahrain. - Journal of the Bombay natural History Society 61(1):119-141, pls 1-3. 139
Oman   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. 68
Qatar   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. 110
Saudi Arabia   Walker D. H. & Pittaway A. R. 1987. Insects of Eastern Arabia. - — :1-95. 69
United Arab Emirates   Walker D. H. & Pittaway A. R. 1987. Insects of Eastern Arabia. - — :1-95. 69

Notes:  Oriental: India, Pakistan: Palaearctic: Iran. The record of Oman (E. P. Wiltshire 1980b: 192) is a misidentification of Phaiogramma faustinata (Millière, 1868).

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Verbenaceae Clerodendrum inerme   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. 110