Pingasa ruginaria (Guenée, 1858)
NB. recent evidence shows that P.ruginaria is not an African species and that this species should probably be named as P. commutata (Walker, 1860)
Bordered Duster.
SYNONYMS
Hypochroma ruginaria, Pingasa batiaria, Hypochroma nyctemerata, Hypochroma perfectaria,
SPECIES IN GENUS :- 18
abyssiniaria, decristata, dispensata, distensaria, floridivenis, grandidieri, griveaudi, herbuloti, hypoleucaria, hypoxantha, lahayei, murphyi, nigrolineata, pallidata, rhadamaria, ruginaria, serrativalvis, ultrata,
DISTRIBUTION
Cameroon, DRCongo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe,
LARVAL FOODPLANTS
Crotalaria, Psidium guajava, Terminalia tomentosa, triplochiton scleroxylon, Ziziphus mucronata, Ziziphus mauritiana, Xylia xylocarpa, Rhus,
