Asaphodes recta

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Asaphodes recta
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Female
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Male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Asaphodes
Species:
A. recta
Binomial name
Asaphodes recta
(Philpott, 1905) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Xanthorhoe rectaPhilpott, 1905
  • Larentia recta(Philpott, 1905)

Asaphodes recta is a moth in the family Geometridae. [2] It is endemic to New Zealand. [1]

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1905 and named Xanthorhoe recta. In 1939 Louis Beethoven Prout placed this species in the genus Larentia. [3] In 1971 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Asaphodes. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Asaphodes recta (Philpott, 1905)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
  2. 1 2 John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 174. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021.
  3. ↑ Prout, L. B. (1939). "Geometridae: Fauna Indo-Australica". The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 12: 264 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. ↑ J. S. Dugdale (10 November 1971). "Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of New Zealand: Lepidoptera, excluding non-crambine Pyralidae" (PDF). Pacific Insects Monographs . 27: 55–172. ISSN   0078-7515. Wikidata   Q64006453.
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