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Pingasa Moth

Pingasa subpurpurea

Photo by Juan Manuel
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Field Notes

Description:

45 mm wingspan. Broken white with a brownish desing and blue shadows.

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Pingasa
Species: P. subpurpurea
Binomial name
Pingasa subpurpurea
Warren, 1897

Habitat:

Tropical wood, lowlands.

Notes:

Geometridae... some species from genus pingasa?

Reference Links:

Pingasa subpurpurea

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Juan Manuel
Tnx Harsa! I think could be pingasa chlora or pingasa subpurpurea. I think nore in p. subpurpurea becose the other doesn't have the yellow we see in the new pic I uploaded.
Harsha Singh
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/15292022

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PublishedJune 4, 2013

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