Epigynopteryx coffeae Prout L. B., 1934
FAMILY | Geometridae |
SUBFAMILY | Ennominae |
GENUS | Epigynopteryx |
SPECIES | coffeae |
AUTHOR | Prout L. B., 1934 |
ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Epigynopteryx coffeae sp. n. |
TYPE LOCALITY | Kenya, Kiambu, e.l. Coffea, xii.1931, leg. R. H. Le Pelley. |
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Syntypes 6♂, 5♀, BMNH. |
STATUS | Species |
PUBLICATION | Prout L. B. 1934a. New species and subspecies of Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 39(2):99-136. |
PAGINATION | 124-125 |
Species pictures



Species Distribution
COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Burundi | ZSM | ||
Kenya | Prout L. B. 1934a. New species and subspecies of Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 39(2):99-136. | 125 |
Host Plants
FAMILY | SPECIES | COUNTRY | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Rubiaceae | Coffea sp. | Kenya | Prout L. B. 1934a. New species and subspecies of Geometridae. - Novitates Zoologicae 39(2):99-136. | 125 |
Rubiaceae | Coffea arabica | East Africa | Sevastopulo D. G. 1977. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 36(314):45-50. | 46 (as coffaea) |