Asaphodes cosmodora
Asaphodes cosmodora is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand.
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Asaphodes |
Species: | A. cosmodora |
Binomial name | |
Asaphodes cosmodora | |
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Taxonomy
A. cosmodora was described by Edward Meyrick in 1888 as Larentia cosmodora using material he collected at Gordon's Pyramid on Mount Arthur in January.[2][4] The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]
Description
Meyrick originally described the species as follows:
Female. — 27 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs whitish-ochreous, slightly brownish-tinged; abdomen with a double dorsal series of dark fuscous dots. Forewings with costa hardly perceptibly arched, hindmargin slightly rounded, oblique; whitish-ochreous, slightly yellowish-tinged; a curved irregular black line rather near base, followed by a white line; median band rather darker, tinged with yellowish-fuscous towards edges, margined with dentate black lines and outside these with white, anterior from 1⁄3 of costa to 2⁄5 of inner margin, rather curved, posterior from 2⁄3 of costa to 3⁄4 of inner margin, somewhat prominent beneath costa, and with a more distinct double prominence in middle; two white dentate-edged spots within median band, first beneath costa, containing small black discal dot, second on inner margin; a waved white subterminal line; a fine dark fuscous hindmarginal line interrupted into numerous dots: cilia whitish-ochreous, with dark fuscous bars hardly reaching base. Hindwings whitish-ochreous, with faint darker greyish-tinged lines ; a median band of four more distinct cloudy grey lines, first three straight, fourth well-marked, rather dark fuscous, waved, somewhat prominent in middle, beneath confluent with third; a faint white subterminal line; cilia pale whitish-ochreous, with a faint greyish line tending to form spots.[4]
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1][5] Along with mountainous areas in the Kahurangi National Park, this species has also been found in the Dansey ecological district in Otago at altitudes of between 1000 and 1300 m.[6]
Biology and life cycle
A. cosmodora can be found on the wing in January and February.[6]
References
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- "Asaphodes cosmodora (Meyrick, 1888)". www.nzor.org.nz. Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Ltd. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 1–269. ISBN 0477025188. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Asaphodes cosmodora". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- Meyrick, Edward (1888). "Notes on New Zealand Geometrina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 20: 47–62 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume Two. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 459. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
- Patrick, B.H. (1991). Insects of the Dansey Ecological District (PDF). Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Conservation, New Zealand. p. 17. ISBN 0-478-01285-3. Retrieved 19 August 2018.