Poecilasthena subpurpureata facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Poecilasthena subpurpureata |
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Poecilasthena
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P. subpurpureata
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| Poecilasthena subpurpureata (Walker, 1863)
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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. A synomic species, Astheniodes polycymaria, 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. Louis Beethoven Prout reasonably calls this an error in his 1926 paper.
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