Chalastra (moth)

Chalastra
Female Chalastra pellurgata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Ennominae
Genus:	Chalastra Walker, 1862
Type species
Chalastra pellurgata

Chalastra is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1862.[1] The type species of this genus is Chalastra pellurgata. [2]

Species

The species in this genus include:[3]

• Chalastra aristarcha (Meyrick, 1892)
• Chalastra ochrea (Howes, 1911)
• Chalastra pellurgata (Walker, 1862)

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Chalastra​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
2. Dugdale , J. S. (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 163. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
3. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 459. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.