Species Poecilasthena pulchraria (Doubleday, 1843)

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• Acidalia pulchraria White, A. in White, A. & Doubleday, E. 1843. List of the annulose animals hitherto recorded as found in New Zealand, with the descriptions of some new species. pp. i-iv, 1-396 in Dieffenbach, E. (ed.). Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country. London : John Murray Vol. 2. [286].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, New Zealand.
• Asthena ondinata Guenée, A. 1857. In Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Atlas, coloured pls to vols 5-10. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. [438].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia, Tasmania.
• Chlorochroma plurilineata Walker, F. 1861. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 22: 499-755 [563].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia, Tasmania.
• Asthena pulchraria decolor Turner, A.J. 1904. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Family Geometridae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 16: 218-284 [242] [originally as var.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂, Australia: New South Wales, Glen Innes, Sydney, Blackheath, Bathurst,: Mt Kosciusko; Victoria, Sale; Melbourne; Gisborne; Tasmania, Deloraine; Hobart; Western Australia, Albany; New Zealand.

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Epacris J.R.Forst. [EPACRIDACEAE]; Monotoca R.Br. [EPACRIDACEAE]; Astroloma R.Br. [EPACRIDACEAE]; Brachyloma Sond. [EPACRIDACEAE]).

Associated Flora References

Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. [769] (Astroloma)

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