Scotorythra goniastis is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands of Maui and Hawaii.

Scotorythra goniastis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Scotorythra
Species:
S. goniastis
Binomial name
Scotorythra goniastis

References edit

  1. ^ Meyrick, E. (1899). "Scotorythra goniastis, sp. nov.". Macrolepidoptera. Fauna Hawaiiensis. Vol. 1 (2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 180–181.

Further reading edit

  • Meyrick, E. (1900). "New Hawaiian Lepidoptera". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 36 (438): 258. To this species also I now refer without doubt the specimen (of unknown locality) formerly assigned by me as the ♀ of S. goniastis.
  • Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). "Scotorythra goniastis". Macrolepidoptera. Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 7. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 96. hdl:10125/7336.