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,[2] Cameroon, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Pingasa |
| Species: | P. rhadamaria
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The larvae feed on Ziziphus jujuba and Ziziphus mauritiana.[3]
Subspecies
edit- Pingasa rhadamaria rhadamaria (Madagascar)
- Pingasa rhadamaria alterata (Walker, 1860) (Kenya, South Africa)
- Pingasa rhadamaria attenuans (Walker, 1860) (Sierra Leone, São Tomé, Gambia)
- Pingasa rhadamaria signifrontaria (Mabille, 1893) (the Comoros)
- Pingasa rhadamaria victoria Prout, 1913 (Zimbabwe)
References
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- ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, 1858)". Afromoths. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, 1858)". African Moths. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
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