Pseudocoremia insignita, also referred to by the common name tree nettle flash, is a species of moth in the family Geometridae.[1] [2] It is endemic to New Zealand.[3]
This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1930 under the name Selidosema insignita. In 1988 J. S. Dugdale synonymised P. pergrata into this species, however in 2003 P. pergrata was reinstated as species separate from P. insignita.
Philpott described the species as follows:
Philpott noted that the shape of the outer median band margin differed from all other New Zealand species in the (then) Selidosema genus. The holotype was collected from Kaeo in the Far North District on 16 January 1921 by C. B. Clarke, and kept in the collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum.[4]