Pingasa dispensata

Pingasa dispensata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Pingasa
Species:	P. dispensata
Binomial name
Pingasa dispensata (Walker, 1860)
Synonyms
Hypochroma dispensataWalker, 1860 Hypochroma celataWalker, 1866

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.

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 delotypaProut, 1935 (Bioko) (See Protonym Pingasa abyssiniaria delotypa Prout, 1935:120 from "Fernando-Po", possibly confused later with African Pingasa distensaria [?!?]).

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 dispensata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.
3. HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants

External links

• Media related to Pingasa dispensata at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Pingasa dispensata at Wikispecies