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Poecilasthena subpurpureata
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Female
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Male
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Poecilasthena
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P. subpurpureata
Binomial name
Poecilasthena subpurpureata
(Walker, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Asthena subpurpureata Walker, 1863
  • Acidalia tuhuata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Astheniodes polycymaria Hampson, 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. 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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