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 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
[edit]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
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This species is endemic to the Auckland Islands of New Zealand and has been found on Adams Island and Auckland Island.[6][1]
References
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- ^ a b "Asaphodes oxyptera (Hudson, 1909)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
- ^ a b c John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 174. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ a b George Vernon Hudson (1909), Descriptions of four new species of Macro-lepidoptera from the southern islands., pp. 67–69, Wikidata Q110661018
- ^ George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 122, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
- ^ John Stewart Dugdale (1964). "Insects of Campbell Island. Appendix. Lepidoptera: Geometridae". Pacific Insects Monographs. 7: 607–623. ISSN 0078-7515. Wikidata Q110661075.
- ^ a b Dugdale, J. S. (10 November 1971). "Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of New Zealand: Lepidoptera, excluding non-crambine Pyralidae". Pacific Insects Monographs. 27: 55–172. ISSN 0078-7515. Wikidata Q64006453.
- ^ John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 172. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.