Poecilasthena cisseres

Poecilasthena cisseres is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1933. It is found in Australia, including Victoria.

Poecilasthena cisseres
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Poecilasthena
Species:
P. cisseres
Binomial name
Poecilasthena cisseres
Turner, 1933[1]

Original description

Female, 28 mm. Head grey-whitish; face brownish; fillet white. Palpi under 1: brown-whitish. Antennae whitish. Thorax dull bluish-green. Abdomen dull bluish-green; apex whitish; underside pale grey. Legs pale fuscous; posterior pair whitish. Forewings triangular, costa moderately arched, apex pointed, termen nearly straight, moderately oblique; dull bluish-green with white markings; costal edge grey throughout; antemedian line from 1/3 costa to 3/8 dorsum, slightly curved outwards, slender, indistinct towards costa; postmedian from 2/3 costa to 5/8 dorsum, stronger, slightly outwardly curved, becoming sinuate towards dorsum; cilia pale grey. Hindwings with termen strongly rounded; as forewings but lines more approximated. Very distinct, but nearest Poecilasthena euphylla. Victoria: Moe, in February; one specimen.

— Original description by Alfred Jefferis Turner

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Poecilasthena cisseres Turner 1933". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 13 November 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.


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