Pingasa cinerea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Pingasa |
Species: | P. cinerea |
Binomial name | |
Pingasa cinerea | |
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Pingasa cinerea, the tan-spotted grey, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by William Warren in 1894. It is found in the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria.
The wingspan is about 30 mm. Adults are grey brown with a wavy pattern of darker markings. They have a rare resting posture, with the forewings dislocated to point forward.
The larvae are pale brown and covered in spiky warts. [2]
Rhuma argyraspis is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1893. It is found in Australia, including Queensland.
Cleorodes is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae described by Warren in 1894. Its single species, Cleorodes lichenaria, the Brussels lace, was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767.
Lophophelma is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Prout in 1912.
Pingasa is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Frederic Moore in 1887.
Pingasa chlora, the white looper moth or flower-eating caterpillar, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Caspar Stoll in 1782. It is found Sundaland, the Philippines, Sulawesi and from the Moluccas to Queensland, Australia.
Pingasa rubicunda is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1894. It is found in northern India, Sundaland and the Philippines.
Pingasa ruginaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. It is found in northern India, south-east Asia, the Ryukyu Islands and Sundaland.
The Pseudoterpnini are a tribe of geometer moths in the subfamily Geometrinae. The tribe was described by Warren in 1893. It was alternatively treated as subtribe Pseudoterpniti by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 1996.
Pingasa hypoleucaria is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1862. It is found on Réunion and Mauritius.
Pingasa aigneri is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1930. It is found in Japan.
Pingasa angulifera is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1896. It is found in Queensland, Australia.
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 and in Queensland, Australia.
Pingasa decristata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1902. It occurs on São Tomé Island.
Pingasa javensis is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1894. It is found on Java.
Pingasa meeki is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1907. It is found on New Guinea.
Pingasa nobilis is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1913. It is found in New Guinea and Queensland, Australia.
Pingasa rhadamaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is found on the Comoros, Madagascar and São Tomé and Príncipe and in Sierra Leone, South Africa, the Gambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.
Pingasa subpurpurea is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1897. It is found on Borneo, the Philippines and Sulawesi. The habitat consists of dry heath forests and swamp forests, as well as cultivated areas.
Pingasa subviridis is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1896. It is found in India on Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The habitat consists of forested lowland areas up to 1,930 meters.
Pingasa venusta is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1894. It is found in the north-eastern Himalayas, Sundaland and on Sulawesi, Seram and on New Guinea. The habitat consists of lowland areas up to 1,930 meters, including disturbed vegetation and secondary forests.
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