Poecilasthena subpurpureata

Poecilasthena subpurpureata
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Poecilasthena
Species: P. subpurpureata
Binomial name
Poecilasthena subpurpureata
(Walker, 1863)[1]
Synonyms
  • Asthena subpurpureata Walker, 1863
  • Acidalia tuhuata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Astheniodes polycymaria Hampson, 1903

Poecilasthena subpurpureata is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand.[2] A synomic species, Astheniodes polycymaria (the two species have almost identical male genitalia),[3] has a holotype that was recorded by Hampton as being from India, which, as Xue and Scoble point out in their paper, would be a very strange distribution pattern.[3] Louis Prout reasonably calls this an error in his 1926 paper.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Poecilasthena subpurpureata (Walker 1863)". www.taxapad.com. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Poecilasthena subpurpureata (Walker, 1863)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  3. 1 2 Xue, Dayong; Scoble, Malcolm J. (June 2006). "A review of the genera associated with the tribe Asthenini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae)". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Entomology Series. 71 (1): 77–133. doi:10.1017/s0968045402000044. ISSN 1475-2964.
  4. ↑ Prout, Louis (December 11, 1926). "Notes on New Zealand Geometridae" (PDF). Nelson Philosophical Society – via Natlib.


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