Homodotis amblyterma
Illustration of male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Homodotis
Species:
H. amblyterma
Binomial name
Homodotis amblyterma
(Meyrick, 1931)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Asaphodes amblyterma Meyrick, 1931

Homodotis amblyterma is a moth of the family Geometridae.[3] This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Northland. Adults are on the wing in December.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1931 using a specimen collected in Whangārei in December by Commander S. C. Patterson and named Asaphodes amblyterma.[4][2] George Hudson also used this name when he discussed and illustrated this species in his 1939 book A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[5] J. S. Dugdale placed this speceis in the genus Homodotis in 1988.[2] The female holotype, which is labeled as a male, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂ 24 mm. Head, palpi thorax grey irrorated whitish. Antennal pectinations 6. Forewings triangular, apex somewhat prominentrounded, termen little oblique, somewhat sinuate above, rounded beneath; grey; costal edge ochreous-whitish spotted dark grey; median band broad, with faint ochreous tinge, preceded by a slightly curved fascia of 3 or 4 dark fuscous striae separated by light grey, and limited posteriorly by 3 dark fuscous striae separated by whitish lines becoming white in disc above middle, rather prominentcurved in middle, beyond these a thick dark fuscous shade on costal half of wing: cilia grey, outer half whitish in sinuation. Hindwings light grey; a faint darker curved postmedian line; cilia light grey, outer half whitish-tinged.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] It has been observed in Northland.[4]

Behaviour

Adults are on the wing in December.[5]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Homodotis amblyterma (Meyrick, 1931)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  2. 1 2 3 4 John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 182. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 459. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  4. 1 2 3 Edward Meyrick (1931). "New Species of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 62: 94. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63014994.
  5. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 408, Plate LVI fig. 18, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
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