1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

1-6: two ♀♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1: Doubleday (1843: 287) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Ptychopoda rubropunctaria Doubleday, 1843 [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Asthena risata Guenée, [1858] [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Asthena mullata Guenée, 1868 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Asthena vexata Walker, 1869 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Literature

• Original description: White, A. & E. Doubleday (1843): List of the Annulose Animals hitherto recorded as found in New Zealand, with Descriptions of some New Species. — In: Dieffenbach, E. (1843) Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country. Vol. II: 265-295. London (John Murray).