Kauaʻi record · KCA-IA-00329
Pleuroprucha asthenaria
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About Pleuroprucha asthenaria
Pleuroprucha asthenaria is a small geometrid whose caterpillar moves with the characteristic looping gait.
Natural history and identification
Pleuroprucha asthenaria is a small geometrid whose caterpillar moves with the characteristic looping gait. Brazilian agricultural research describes beige adults with oblique brown wing lines and caterpillars varying from green to brown. Studies outside Hawaiʻi document feeding on mango inflorescences and developing sorghum grain. These records establish feeding capabilities, but they are not evidence of a Kauaʻi crop outbreak or a locally measured generation time.
Kauaʻi occurrence and evidence
Atlas occurrence category: Present. Documented from Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, and Maui in modern Hawaiian records.
Evidence limits
The cited observations describe the evidence currently available for this account. They do not establish a complete life history or a measured current Kauaʻi population trend.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Pleuroprucha asthenaria
- Family
- Geometridae
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Present
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Pleuroprucha asthenaria is a small geometrid whose caterpillar moves with the characteristic looping gait.