Poecilasthena pulchraria

Poecilasthena pulchraria is a moth of the family Geometridae.^[1] It is found in Australia and New Zealand. It was first described by Edward Doubleday in 1843 and named Acidalia pulchraria.^[2]

Poecilasthena pulchraria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Poecilasthena
Species:	P. pulchraria
Binomial name
Poecilasthena pulchraria (Doubleday, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
Acidalia pulchraria Doubleday, 1843 Asthena ondinata Guenée, 1857 Asthena pulchraria (Doubleday, 1843) Chlorochroma plurilineata Walker, 1861 Asthena decolor Turner, 1904

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.^[3]