Pingasa aigneri

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Pingasa aigneri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Pingasa
Species:
P. aigneri
Binomial name
Pingasa aigneri

Pingasa aigneri is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1930. It is found in Japan.

The wingspan is 37–38 mm. [2] The wings are white and strongly irrorated (sprinkled) and clouded with a light olivaceous drab grey. [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. Pitkin, Linda M.; Han, Hongxiang; James, Shayleen (June 11, 2007). "Moths of the tribe Pseudoterpnini (Geometridae: Geometrinae): a review of the genera" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150 (2): 334–412. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00287.x . Archived from the original on April 25, 2012.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. Japanese Moths
  3. Novitates Zoologicae vol.XXXV. September 1930. no. 4. On the Japanese Geometridae of the Aignee Collection