Chiasmia brongusaria (Walker, 1860)

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FAMILY Geometridae
SUBFAMILY Ennominae
GENUS Chiasmia
SPECIES brongusaria
AUTHOR(Walker, 1860)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONEpione (?) brongusaria
TYPE LOCALITYSouth Africa, leg. A. Smith.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Holotype ♀, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Walker F. 1860a. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XX.- Geometrites. - — 20:i-iv, 1-276.
PAGINATION 123-124

Subspecies

NAME AUTHOR STATUS
exosciodes (Prout L. B., 1925) Subspecies
brongusaria (Walker, 1860) Subspecies
exsecutaria (Walker, 1861) Synonym of subspecies
uvidaria (Swinhoe, 1904) Synonym of subspecies
oleochroa (Hampson, 1909) Synonym of subspecies
miliaria (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) Synonym of subspecies
sabulifera (Warren, 1899) Synonym of subspecies
incessaria (Walker, 1861) Synonym of subspecies

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Botswana   Krüger M. 2001a. A revision of the tribe Macariini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) of Africa, Madagascar and Arabia. - Bulletin of The Natural History Museum 70(1):1-502. 247
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Katanga Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910(2):388-510, pls 36-41. 468
Eswatini   Krüger M. 2001a. A revision of the tribe Macariini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) of Africa, Madagascar and Arabia. - Bulletin of The Natural History Museum 70(1):1-502. 247
Ethiopia   Krüger M. 2001a. A revision of the tribe Macariini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) of Africa, Madagascar and Arabia. - Bulletin of The Natural History Museum 70(1):1-502. 247
Kenya   Swinhoe C. 1904b. On the Geometridae of tropical Africa in the National Collection. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1904(3):497-590. 511
Malawi   Butler A. G. 1893a. On two collections of Lepidoptera sent by H. H. Johnston, Esq., C. B., from British Central Africa. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893:643-684, pl. 60. 683
Mozambique   Krüger M. 2001a. A revision of the tribe Macariini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) of Africa, Madagascar and Arabia. - Bulletin of The Natural History Museum 70(1):1-502. 247
Namibia   Prout L. B. 1925d. New species of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) in the collections of the South African Museum. - Annals of the South African Museum 19(4):579-600, pls 16-17. 596 (as exosciodes)
South Africa   Walker F. 1860a. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XX.- Geometrites. - — 20:i-iv, 1-276. 124
South Africa Eastern Cape Taylor J. S. 1949. Notes on Lepidoptera in the Eastern Cape Province (Part 1). - Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa 12(1):78-95, 2 pls. 87
Tanzania   Butler A. G. 1891a. List of Lepidoptera in a collection made by Emin Pasha in Central Africa. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 7(37):40-51. 51 (as incessaria)
Uganda   Warren W. 1899b. New Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, and Geometridae from the Aethiopian region. - Novitates Zoologicae 6(3):287-312. 311 (as sabulifera)
Zambia   Hampson G. F. 1910c. Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories: Lepidoptera Phalaenae. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1910(2):388-510, pls 36-41. 468
Zimbabwe   Prout L. B. 1925d. New species of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) in the collections of the South African Museum. - Annals of the South African Museum 19(4):579-600, pls 16-17. 596 (as exosciodes)

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Fabaceae Acacia karroo South Africa Taylor J. S. 1949. Notes on Lepidoptera in the Eastern Cape Province (Part 1). - Journal of the entomological Society of Southern Africa 12(1):78-95, 2 pls. 87
Fabaceae Acacia sieberiana South Africa Parsons M. S., Scoble M. J., Honey M. R., Pitkin L. M. & Pitkin B. R. 1999. Geometrid moths of the world. A catalogue (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). [Edited by M. J. Scoble]. - — 2 volumes:i-xxv, 1-482, 483-1016, index: 1-129. 128
Fabaceae Acacia xanthophloea 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. 6
Fabaceae Acacia hirtella South Africa Platt E. E. 1921. List of foodplants of some South African lepidopterous larvae. - South African Journal of Natural History 3(1):65-138. 67
Fabaceae Acacia robusta South Africa Krüger M. 2019b. Geometridae (Lepidoptera, Geometroidea). - In: Mey W. & Krüger M. (Eds), The Lepidoptera fauna of a crater valley in the Great Escarpment of South Africa: The Asante Sana Project. - Esperiana Memoir 8:365-410. 394
Fabaceae Acacia sp. 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
Fabaceae Acacia tortilis Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1938. Further notes on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13(5):168-182. 178 (as brongosaria)

*   Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1938: 178-179).