Poecilasthena pulchraria

Poecilasthena pulchraria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Australia and New Zealand. It was first described by Edward Doubleday in 1843 and named Acidalia pulchraria.[1]

Poecilasthena pulchraria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Poecilasthena
Species:
P. pulchraria
Binomial name
Poecilasthena pulchraria
(Doubleday, 1843)
Synonyms
  • Acidalia pulchraria Doubleday, 1843
  • Asthena ondinata GuenĂ©e, 1857
  • Chlorochroma plurilineata Walker, 1861
  • Asthena decolor Turner, 1904

The green looping caterpillars feed on the flowers, developing fruits and older foliage of Astroloma species in Australia and on Leucopogon fasciculatus in New Zealand.[2] They are green or brown marked with purplish brown and a broken white or cream lateral line.[3]

References

  1. Dieffenbach, E.; White, Adam; Doubleday, Edward (1843). "List of Annulose Animals hitherto recorded as found in New Zealand with descriptions of some new species". Travels in New Zealand: With Contributions to the Geography, Geology, Botany and Natural History of the Country. 2. London: John Murray. p. 285. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.25939.
  2. Plant-SyNZ database
  3. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Poecilasthena Warren". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved April 24, 2019.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.