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Aphilopota phanerostigma is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1917. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe[1] and Ethiopia.

Aphilopota phanerostigma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Ennominae
Genus:	Aphilopota
Species:	A. phanerostigma
Binomial name
Aphilopota phanerostigma Prout, 1917

In Ethiopia the larvae of this species has been recorded as feeding on leaves of Catha edulis (Celastraceae).[2]

Subspecies

• Aphilopota phanerostigma phanerostigma Prout, 1917 (South Africa)
• Aphilopota phanerostigma mweruana Prout, 1954 (Congo)

References

• Prout, L. B. (1917). "New Geometridae (Lepidoptera) in the South African Museum". Annals of the South African Museum. 17(1): 47–77.

External links

• www.biodiversitylibrary.org Annals of the South African Museum, V.19,Plate XVI, fig. 66

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