Heterostegane minutissima (Swinhoe, 1904)
FAMILY | Geometridae |
SUBFAMILY | Ennominae |
GENUS | Heterostegane |
SPECIES | minutissima |
AUTHOR | (Swinhoe, 1904) |
ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Stegania minutissima, nov. |
TYPE LOCALITY | [Kenya], Brit. E. Africa, Tonga, leg. Hollis. |
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♀, BMNH. |
STATUS | Species |
PUBLICATION | Swinhoe C. 1904b. On the Geometridae of tropical Africa in the National Collection. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1904(3):497-590. |
PAGINATION | 500 |
Species pictures



Synonyms
NAME | AUTHOR | STATUS |
sennarensis | (Rebel, 1917) | Synonym of species |
Species Distribution
COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Ethiopia | ZSM | ||
Kenya | Swinhoe C. 1904a. New species of Eastern, Australian and African Heterocera in the national collection. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1904(1):139-158. | 500 | |
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. | 200 (as sennarensis) | |
Sudan | Rebel H. & Zerny H. 1917. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der mit Unterstützung der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien aus der Erbschaft Treitl von F. Werner unternommenen zoologischen Expedition nach dem anglo-ägyptischen Sudan (Kordofan), 1914. 1. Lepidoptera. - Denkschriften der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 93:423-446, pl. 1. | 433 (as sennarensis) |
Host Plants
FAMILY | SPECIES | COUNTRY | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
Fabaceae | Acacia tortilis | Kenya | Agassiz D. J. L. & Harper D. M. 2009. The Macrolepidoptera fauna of Acacia in the Kenyan Rift Valley (Part 1). - Tropical Lepidoptera Research 19(1):4-8. | 7 |