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Poecilasthena pulchraria (native cranberry moth)

Synonyms: Acidalia pulchraria; Asthena decolor; Asthena ondinata; Chlorochroma plurilineata

Wikipedia Abstract

Poecilasthena pulchraria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in Australia and New Zealand. 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. They are green or brown marked with purplish brown and a broken white or cream lateral line.
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Prey / Diet

Leucopogon fasciculatus (tall mingimingi)[1]

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♦ 1New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0