''"Asthena" eurychora'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Geometridae The geometer moths are moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyleti ...

first described by

Louis Beethoven Prout Louis Beethoven Prout (1864–1943) was an English entomologist and musicologist. Prout specialised in the insect order (biology), order of Lepidoptera, especially the Geometridae, or geometer moths, on which he was a foremost authority. He cont ...

in 1928. It is found in western

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...

Taxonomy

The species does not belong to the genus ''

Asthena ''Asthena'' is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. Species * '' Asthena albidaria'' (Leech, 1897) * '' Asthena albosignata'' (Moore, 1888) * '' Asthena albulata'' – small white wave (Hufnagel, 1767) * '' Asthena amurensis'' (Staudi ...

'' or even the tribe

Asthenini Asthenini is a tribe of geometer moths under subfamily Larentiinae first described by Warren in 1893. The tribe has been combined with Eupitheciini in the past, most notably by Jeremy Daniel Holloway in his work The Moths of Borneo. Recognized ...

, but has not been moved to another genus.

References

Moths described in 1928 Asthena Moths of Oceania {{Asthenini-stub