Pingasa rhadamaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is found on the Comoros, Madagascar and São Tomé and Príncipe and in Sierra Leone, South Africa, the Gambia, Zimbabwe,[2] Cameroon, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

Pingasa rhadamaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Pingasa
Species:	P. rhadamaria
Binomial name
Pingasa rhadamaria (Guenée, [1858])[1]
Synonyms
Hypochroma rhadamaria Guenée, [1858] Hypochroma alterata Walker, 1860 Hypochroma attenuans Walker, 1860 Hypochroma signifrontaria Mabille, 1893

The larvae feed on Ziziphus jujube and Ziziphus mauritiana.[3]

Subspecies

• Pingasa rhadamaria rhadamaria (Madagascar)
• Pingasa rhadamaria alterata (Walker, 1860) (Kenya, South Africa)
• Pingasa rhadamaria attenuans (Walker, 1860) (Sierra Leone, São Tomé, Gambia)
• Pingasa rhadamaria signifrontaria (Mabille, 1893) (the Comoros)
• Pingasa rhadamaria victoria Prout, 1913 (Zimbabwe)

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