Pingasa dispensata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1860. It is found in India,[2] Sulawesi and Africa.
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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. dispensata
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The larvae have been recorded feeding on the leaves of Ziziphus jujuba.[3]
Subspecies
edit- Pingasa dispensata dispensata (India)
- Pingasa dispensata celata (Walker, 1866) (Sulawesi)
- Pingasa dispensata delotypa Prout, 1935 (Bioko)
- Pingasa distensaria distensaria (Walker, 1860) (Burundi, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)
- Pingasa distensaria respondens (Walker, 1860) (South Africa)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Pingasa dispensata.
- ^ 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) - ^ 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.
- ^ HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
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