Notoreas atmogramma

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Notoreas atmogramma
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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: Notoreas
Species:
N. atmogramma
Binomial name
Notoreas atmogramma
Meyrick, 1911

Notoreas atmogramma is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is a day flying moth that frequents alpine habitat.

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Taxonomy

This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911 using material collected by George Hudson at Mount Holdsworth in the Tararua Range at an altitude of approximately 1200m. [1] [2] Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. [3] The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [1]

Description

Notoreas atmogramma observed on Mount Holdsworth Notoreas atmogramma 61479501.jpg
Notoreas atmogramma observed on Mount Holdsworth

Meyrick described the species as follows:

♀︎. 25-27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax black, mixed with whitish-ochreous-yellowish hairs and scales. Abdomen black, mixed on sides with whitish-yellow, segmental margins slenderly whitish. Forewings triangular, costa straight, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique ; dark fuscous, with a few scattered pale - yellowish scales ; lines cloudy, light - yellowish, subbasal, first (and second partially) whitish, first curved, median very indefinite, second angulated in middle, subterminal irregular : cilia white, basal half fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; colour and markings as in forewings, but basal area irrorated with pale yellowish, subbasal and first lines obsolete, second somewhat bent in middle : cilia as in forewings. Under-surface of all wings light ochreous-yellow ; first and second lines indistinctly indicated by whitish suffusion ; forewings with some incomplete cloudy blackish lines ; hindwings with a blackish discal mark. [2]

Distribution

Mount Holdsworth, Tararua Range Mt Holdsworth - Jumbo Circuit, Tararua Range, New Zealand 09.JPG
Mount Holdsworth, Tararua Range

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [4] [5] Along with Mount Holdsworth, this species has been found at Mount Taranaki, [6] the Pouakai Range in Taranaki, [7] and Lewis Pass. [8]

Biology and behaviour

This species is on the wing in January and February. [3] It is an alpine moth that is active during the day. [3]

Habitat and host species

The species frequents open grass alpine habitat. [3] Larvae of species within the genus Notoreas feed exclusively on plants within the genera Pimelea and Kelleria . [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dugdale, J. S. (1988). Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14. pp. 1–269. ISBN   978-0477025188 . Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 Meyrick, Edward (1911). "Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 43: 58–78 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 124. OCLC   25449322.
  4. ↑ "Notoreas atmogramma Meyrick, 1911". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
  5. ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity, Volume Two, Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 460. ISBN   9781877257933. OCLC   973607714.
  6. ↑ "Notoreas atmogramma Meyrick, 1911 AI.031851". www.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Notoreas atmogramma Meyrick, 1911 AI.030964". www.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  8. ↑ "Notoreas atmogramma Meyrick, 1911 AI.030966". www.TePapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  9. ↑ Patrick, BH; Hoare, RJB; Rhode, BE (December 2010). "Taxonomy and conservation of allopatric moth populations: a revisionary study of the Notoreas perornata Walker complex (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae), with special reference to southern New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 37 (4): 257–283. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2010.511127 .
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