Omphacodes pulchrifimbria (Warren, 1902)

FAMILY	Geometridae
SUBFAMILY	Geometrinae
GENUS	Omphacodes
SPECIES	pulchrifimbria
AUTHOR	(Warren, 1902)
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Syndromodes pulchrifimbria sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY	[Kenya], British East Africa, Kikuyu Escarpment, i-ii.1901, leg. W. Doherty.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Syntypes 3♂, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Warren W. 1902b. New African Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. - Novitates Zoologicae 9:487-536.
PAGINATION	496

Species pictures

Subspecies

NAME	AUTHOR	STATUS
purifimbria	Prout L. B., 1930	Subspecies
pulchritacta	Prout L. B., 1923	Subspecies
pulchrifimbria	(Warren, 1902)	Subspecies

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	Katanga	Prout L. B. 1929-1938. Die Spannerartigen Nachtfalter (Geometridae). Die Afrikanischen Spanner. Geometridae. - In: Seitz A. (ed.) Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Eine Systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge. - — 16:1-160.	42 (as purifimbria)
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.	136
Ethiopia		Prout L. B. 1922c. Geometridae. - In: Prout, L. B. & Prout, A. E., New South African Heterocera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 8(3):149-186, pl. 1.	192 (as pulchritacta)
Kenya		Warren W. 1902b. New African Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. - Novitates Zoologicae 9:487-536.	496
Rwanda			ZSM
Saudi Arabia		Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31-130, pl. 1.	97 (as directa)
Sudan		Debauche H. R. 1937. Entomological expedition to Abyssinia, 1926-27: Lepidoptera, Geometridae. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 20(117):320-344, pls 7-8.	326
Uganda		Fletcher D. S. 1958b. Ruwenzori Expedition 1952. - Geometridae. - Ruwenzori Expedition 1952 1(6):77-176.	87 (as pulchritacta)
Yemen		Walsingham Thomas de Grey & Hampson G. F. 1896. On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896(1):257-283, pl. 10.	268 (as directa)
Yemen	Socotra	Rebel H. 1907a. Lepidopteren aus Südarabien und von der Insel Sokotra. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 71(2):31-130, pl. 1.	97 (as directa)

Notes: Has been misidentified as the Indian species Omphacodes directa (Walker, 1861) (see A. Hausmann 2006: 38, A. Hausmann et al. 2016: 72).

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Fabaceae	Acacia 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.	194 (as puchrifimbria)
Fabaceae	Acacia tortilis	Kenya	Townsend A. L. H. 1937. Miscellaneous notes on the early stages of certain Heterocera. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13 (1936)(3-4):107-131.	129 (as Acacia thorn)

* Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1937: 129-130).