Biology:Asaphodes oxyptera
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Asaphodes |
| Species: | A. oxyptera
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| Asaphodes oxyptera (Hudson, 1909))[1]
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Asaphodes oxyptera is a species of moth in the family Geometridae.[2] This species is endemic to New Zealand and is only found in the Auckland Islands.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by George Hudson in 1909 using a specimen collected by A. A. Dorrien-Smith at North Arm, Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island and named Xanthorhoe oxyptera.[3] Hudson went on to discuss and illustrate this species in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] In 1964 Dugdale illustrated the male genitalia of this species.[5] In 1971 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Asaphodes.[6] In 1988 Dugdale confirmed this placement in his catalogue of New Zealand Lepidoptera.[2] The male holotype specimen is held at Te Papa.[7]
Description
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Hudson described this species as follows:
The expansion of the wings is 1 3⁄8 in. The head, thorax, and abdomen are brownish-ochreous, the last-named with two blackish spots on the back of each segment. The palpi are slender, nearly as long as the head, whitish-ochreous. The antennae are whitish-ochreous, with long black pectinations extending to the apex. The forewings are elongate, narrow, with the apex extremely acute and the tornus rounded, rather dark greyish-brown, very glossy, with the bases of the veins and a broad costal band pale brownish-ochreous ; a small black discal dot. Hindwings narrow, apex and tornus rounded, greyish-brown, very glossy, without markings except a few extremely minute blackish marginal dots. On the underside all the wings are whitish-ochreous, the costa of the forewing and the whole of the hindwing darker ; the basal portions of all the veins are strongly marked in blackish-brown. The cilia of all the wings are very pale-ochreous.[3]
Distribution
This species is endemic to the Auckland Islands of New Zealand and has been found on Adams Island and Auckland Island.[6][1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Asaphodes oxyptera (Hudson, 1909)". https://www.nzor.org.nz/names/46be9444-ce83-4860-9a13-0e3e2a7e810e.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 , pp. 174, Wikidata Q45083134
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 , Wikidata Q110661018
- ↑ , pp. 122, Wikidata Q58593286
- ↑ , Wikidata Q110661075
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 , Wikidata Q64006453
- ↑ , pp. 172, Wikidata Q45083134
Wikidata ☰ Q41805684 entry
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