Species Agathia lycaenaria (Kollar, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Geometra lycaenaria Kollar, V. in Kollar, V. & Redtenbacher, L. 1844. (Part 2) Aufzählung und Beschreibung der von Freiherrn Carl v. Hügel auf seiner Reise durch Kaschmir und das Himaleyagebirge gesammelten Insecten. pp. 393-564 in von Hügel, C. (ed.). Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek. Stuttgart : von Hügel Vol. 4. [486].

  Type data:

   Holotype [India]: Himalayas, Massuri [Mussooree].
• Geometra albiangularia Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1855. Systematischer Bearbeitung, &c. dessen neuen Schmetterlingen aus Europa, &c. dann der von Hübner abgebildeten Raupen, &c. Regensburg Vol. 1. [Date published June] [339].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂, Ind. or.
• Agathia discriminata Walker, F. 1861. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 22: 499-755 [591] [infrasubsp.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3♀, Hindostan [India]: Canara.
• Agathia hedia Prout, L.B. 1916. New Indo-Australian Geometridae. Novitates Zoologicae 23: 191-209 [196] [Treated as a ssp. of lycaenaria by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, ♀, [Australia]: Queensland, Townsville.
• Agathia impar Prout, L.B. 1916. New Indo-Australian Geometridae. Novitates Zoologicae 23: 191-209 [196] [Treated as ssp. of lycaenaria by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, ♀, India (south): Belgaum, Travancore.

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis [RUBIACEAE] Cape Jasmine; Tabernaemontana divaricata R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult. [APOCYNACEAE] Crepe Jasmine; Nerium odorum Sol. ex Aiton [APOCYNACEAE] Oleander; Nerium oleander L. [APOCYNACEAE] Oleander; Mammea siamensis T. Anders. [CALOPHYLLACEAE]; Carissa spinarum L. [APOCYNACEAE]).

General References

Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. [24]

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