Aponotoreas insignis (also known as the Alpine grassland orange) is a moth of the family Geometridae.

[4] This species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877 from specimens collected by James Hector and John Enys.

[5] Butler originally named the species Aspilates insignis.

[5] In 1986 Robin C. Craw described the new genus Aponotoreas and included A. insignis within it.

[6] A. insignis prefers to inhabit tussock land on the mountain sides of the South Island.