Pingasa dispensata
Species of moth
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Pingasa dispensata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1860.[1] It is found in India,[2] Sulawesi and possibly Africa.
| Pingasa dispensata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Pingasa |
| Species: | P. dispensata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pingasa dispensata (Walker, 1860) | |
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The larvae have been recorded feeding on the leaves of Ziziphus jujuba.[3]
Subspecies
- Pingasa dispensata dispensata (India)
- Pingasa dispensata celata (Walker, 1866) (Sulawesi) (erroneous locality? originally as "Tond")
- Pingasa dispensata delotypa Prout, 1935 (Bioko) (See Protonym Pingasa abyssiniaria delotypa Prout, 1935:120 from "Fernando-Po", possibly confused later with African Pingasa distensaria [?!?]).
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