Pingasa blanda

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Pingasa blanda
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Pingasa
Species:
P. blanda
Binomial name
Pingasa blanda
(Pagenstecher, 1900) [1]
Synonyms
  • Pseudoterpna blandaPagenstecher, 1900
  • Pingasa acutangulaWarren, 1903

Pingasa blanda is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1900. It is found on New Guinea, on the Bismarck Archipelago [2] and in Queensland, Australia. [3]

Adults are off white with wide brown margins.

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.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pingasa blanda". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.
  3. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (6 November 2010). "Pingasa blanda (Pagenstecher, 1900)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 17 April 2019.