Arctesthes

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| image = Arctesthes catapyrrha female.jpg

| image_caption = Female Arctesthes catapyrrha

| taxon = Arctesthes

| authority = Meyrick, 1885

}}

Arctesthes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Edward Meyrick in 1885. It is endemic to New Zealand.{{cite web|title=Arctesthes Meyrick, 1885 |url=http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/d8a0b44b-2a60-471c-acdd-f7c99871be40|website=New Zealand Organisms Register |publisher=Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd|accessdate=8 February 2017}}{{Cite journal|last=Patrick|first=Brian H.|last2=Patrick|first2=Hamish J.H.|last3=Hoare|first3=Robert J.B.|date=2019-05-29|title=Review of the endemic New Zealand genus Arctesthes Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae), with descriptions of two new range-restricted species|url=https://alpineentomology.pensoft.net/article/33944/|journal=Alpine Entomology|volume=3|pages=121–136|doi=10.3897/alpento.3.33944|issn=2535-0889|via=Pensoft|doi-access=free}}