Poecilasthena subpurpureata

Poecilasthena subpurpureata is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Francis Walker in 1863 and 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 George Hampson as being from India, which, as Dayong Xue and Malcolm J. Scoble point out in their paper, would be a very strange distribution pattern.[3] Louis Beethoven Prout reasonably calls this an error in his 1926 paper.[4]

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

References

1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Poecilasthena subpurpureata (Walker 1863)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
2. "Poecilasthena subpurpureata (Walker, 1863)". New Zealand Organisms Register. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
3. Xue, Dayong; Scoble, Malcolm J. (June 27, 2002). "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.
4. Prout, Louis B. (11 December 1926). "Notes on New Zealand Geometridae" (PDF). Nelson Philosophical Society – via National Library of New Zealand.