Dichromodes sphaeriata

Dichromodes sphaeriata
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Dichromodes
Species:	D. sphaeriata
Binomial name
Dichromodes sphaeriata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms [1]
Cidaria sphaeriataFelder & Rogenhofer, 1875 Dichromodes petrinaMeyrick, 1892

Dichromodes sphaeriata is a moth of the family Geometridae. ^[2] It is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Cajetan von Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875 using a specimen collected in Nelson by T. R. Oxley and originally named this species Cidaria sphaeriata. ^{[3] [1]} In 1892 Edward Meyrick, thinking he was describing a new species, named it Dichromodes petrina. Prout synonymised this name in 1912. The male holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London. ^[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. ^[4]

References

1. Dugdale , J. S. (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 192. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
2. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 460. ISBN   978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC   973607714. OL   25288394M. Wikidata   Q45922947.
3. von Felder, Cajetan; Rogenhofer, Alois Friedrich (1875). Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Vol. 2. Wien. pp. Plate CXXXI Figure 14. BHL page 1221364
4. "Dichromodes sphaeriata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-03-04.