Poecilasthena subpurpureata

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Poecilasthena subpurpureata
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Female
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Poecilasthena
Species:
P. subpurpureata
Binomial name
Poecilasthena subpurpureata
(Walker, 1863) [1]
Synonyms
  • Asthena subpurpureataWalker, 1863
  • Acidalia tuhuataFelder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Astheniodes polycymariaHampson, 1903

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]

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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. 1 2 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.


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