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Scotorythra goniastis

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ7435752 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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Further reading

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.

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“Scotorythra goniastis” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scotorythra, goniastis and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scotorythra goniastis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.