"Asthena" aurantiaca is a moth in the family Geometridae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1926. It is found on Western New Guinea.
Asthena aurantiaca | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Asthena |
Species: | A. aurantiaca
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Binomial name | |
Asthena aurantiaca |
Taxonomy
editThe species does not belong to the genus Asthena or even the tribe Asthenini, but has not been moved to another genus.[2]
References
edit- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Asthena Hubner 1825". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on November 9, 2018.
- ^ 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.