Poecilasthena pulchraria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Poecilasthena
- Species
- Poecilasthena pulchraria
- Scientific Name
- Poecilasthena pulchraria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
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.
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.
...Poecilasthena pulchraria in languages:
- English
- Native cranberry moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Poecilasthena anthodes
- Poecilasthena balioloma
- Poecilasthena burmensis
- Poecilasthena character
- Poecilasthena cisseres
- Poecilasthena dimorpha
- Poecilasthena euphylla
- Poecilasthena fragilis
- Poecilasthena glaucosa
- Poecilasthena inhaesa
- Poecilasthena iopolia
- Poecilasthena ischnophrica
- Poecilasthena leucydra
- Poecilasthena limnaea
- Poecilasthena nubivaga
- Poecilasthena oceanias
- Poecilasthena panapala
- Poecilasthena paucilinea
- Poecilasthena phaeodryas
- Poecilasthena pisicolor
- Poecilasthena prouti
- Poecilasthena pulchraria
- Poecilasthena schistaria
- Poecilasthena scoliota
- Poecilasthena sthenommata
- Poecilasthena subpurpureata
- Poecilasthena thalassias
- Poecilasthena urarcha
- Poecilasthena xylocyma





























































































































































