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ID: Pingasa pseudoterpinaria (Guenée, [1858])
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria (Guenée, [1858]) with two subspecies known from India.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria gracilis Prout, 1916. Khasi Hills.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria tephrosiaria Guenée, [1858]. NW Himalaya.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria gracilis Prout, 1916. Novit. Zool. 23:7. TL: Khasi Hills. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105188#page/23/mode/1up
FBI, Hampson, Vol. 3, pg. 473 as Pseudoterpa tephrosiaria and listing Pingasa pseudoterpinaria as a synonym. Differs from chlora in being uniformly and much more irrorated with fuscous. Underside without traces of yellow, but with a grey
tinge ; the submarginal band fuscous, much reduced, and narrow. Black-tipped points of the post-medial present in pseudoterpinaria; absent in chlora. The second loop (near the inner margin) of the ante-medial line is more pointed in chlora; more rounded in pseudoterpinaria.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria tephrosiaria Guenée, [1858]. Hist. Nat. insects (Spec. gen. Lepid), 9:277. Inde Orientales.
http://www.jpmoth.org/Geometridae/Geometrinae/Pingasa_pseudoterpnaria_pseudoterpnaria.html for Pingasa pseudoterpinaria pseudoterpinaria.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/951799-Pingasa-pseudoterpnaria
Han Geo, Fauna Sinica, Pl. 10/8-9 for Pingasa chlora chlora
Han Geo, Fauna Sinica Pl. 10/14-15 for Pingasa pseudoterpinaria. Seems very similar to Pingasa chlora. Pingasa pseudoterpinaria has much narrower black submarginal bands.
RS: Agree with ID. It does look similar to P. chlora but the keys for UN in OD match well and also the other specimen images are a good match.
GI: This looks very much like P dispensata, but its restricted to Central and South India and lower elevations of Bengal according to Seitz. The female of P dispensata has very similar markings like this one and the underside is grey too.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria (Guenée, [1858]) with two subspecies known from India.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria gracilis Prout, 1916. Khasi Hills.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria tephrosiaria Guenée, [1858]. NW Himalaya.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria gracilis Prout, 1916. Novit. Zool. 23:7. TL: Khasi Hills. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105188#page/23/mode/1up
FBI, Hampson, Vol. 3, pg. 473 as Pseudoterpa tephrosiaria and listing Pingasa pseudoterpinaria as a synonym. Differs from chlora in being uniformly and much more irrorated with fuscous. Underside without traces of yellow, but with a grey
tinge ; the submarginal band fuscous, much reduced, and narrow. Black-tipped points of the post-medial present in pseudoterpinaria; absent in chlora. The second loop (near the inner margin) of the ante-medial line is more pointed in chlora; more rounded in pseudoterpinaria.
Pingasa pseudoterpinaria tephrosiaria Guenée, [1858]. Hist. Nat. insects (Spec. gen. Lepid), 9:277. Inde Orientales.
http://www.jpmoth.org/Geometridae/Geometrinae/Pingasa_pseudoterpnaria_pseudoterpnaria.html for Pingasa pseudoterpinaria pseudoterpinaria.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/951799-Pingasa-pseudoterpnaria
Han Geo, Fauna Sinica, Pl. 10/8-9 for Pingasa chlora chlora
Han Geo, Fauna Sinica Pl. 10/14-15 for Pingasa pseudoterpinaria. Seems very similar to Pingasa chlora. Pingasa pseudoterpinaria has much narrower black submarginal bands.
RS: Agree with ID. It does look similar to P. chlora but the keys for UN in OD match well and also the other specimen images are a good match.
GI: This looks very much like P dispensata, but its restricted to Central and South India and lower elevations of Bengal according to Seitz. The female of P dispensata has very similar markings like this one and the underside is grey too.
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