Pingasa ruginaria interrupta Warren, 1901

Hausmann, Axel, Parisi, Francesco & Sciarretta, Andrea, 2014, The geometrid moths of Ethiopia I: tribes Pseudoterpnini and Comibaenini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Geometrinae), Zootaxa 3768 (4), pp. 460-468 : 463

Pingasa ruginaria interrupta Warren, 1901

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Type locality. Uganda: Nandi Country , Rau .

Material. ZSM: Bale 1♂ (locality no. 5) .

Genetic data. the single specimen of P. ruginaria from Ethiopia and populations from South-East Asia (examined from Thailand) diverge by 0.46% only, with very similar haplotypes occurring in most populations from western and eastern Africa. In West Africa, however, there is another cluster of haplotypes at a minimum distance of 4.1%, requiring further study.

Figures

FIGURES 1–9. The Geometrid moths of Ethiopia I: tribes Pseudoterpnini and Comibaenini (photos F. Parisi; all figured specimens from Ethiopia). 1. Pingasa rhadamaria signifrontaria (Mabille, 1893), female, wingspan: 35mm; 2. Pingasa lahayei (Oberthür, 1887), male, wingspan: 31mm; 3. Pingasa distensaria (Walker, 1860), male, wingspan: 31mm; 4. Pingasa abyssinaria (Guenée, 1858), male, wingspan: 38mm; 5. Pingasa pallidata de Joannis, 1912, male, wingspan: 31mm; 6. Pingasa ruginaria interrupta Warren, 1901, male, wingspan: 35mm; 7. Microbaena pulchra minor Hausmann, 1996, male, wingspan: 15mm; 8. Comibaena theodori sp. nov., male, holotype, wingspan: 25mm; 9. Comibaena theodori sp. nov., female, paratype, wingspan: 26mm.