Declana toreuta

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Declana toreuta
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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: Declana
Species:
D. toreuta
Binomial name
Declana toreuta
Meyrick, 1929 [1]

Declana toreuta is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. [2] [3] It is endemic to New Zealand. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Declana toreuta Meyrick, 1929". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  2. 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.
  3. 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: 165. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021.