Aponotoreas dissimilis

Aponotoreas dissimilis is a moth of the family Geometridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand.[3]

Aponotoreas dissimilis
Male specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Aponotoreas
Species:
A. dissimilis
Binomial name
Aponotoreas dissimilis
(Philpott, 1914)[1]
Synonyms
  • Venusia dissimilis Philpott, 1914

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1914 under the name Venusia dissimilis using material collected by Merlin Owen Pasco.[4] In 1986 R. C. Craw described the new genus Aponotoreas and included A. dissimilis within it.[3]

Description

A. dissimilis is a reddish brown colour mixed with grey. The forewings are triangular in shape. Both the fore and hind wings have a number of dark coloured faintly waved lines on them and there is a small black disk shaped dot on the fore wings. The female of the species has a similar appearance to the male but is a more grey-brown colour.[4]

Distribution

The type specimen of this species was collected by Merlin Owen Pasco at Ben Lomond in February.[4] Specimens have also been collected around Te Kuha.[5]

Host plant

The larvae of A. dissimilis has been shown to feed on species of Dracophyllum.[3][6]

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References
  1. "Aponotoreas dissimilis (Philpott, 1914)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 170–171. ISSN 0111-5383. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  3. Craw, R. C. (1986-01-01). "Review of the genus Notoreas (sensu auctorum) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 13 (1): 131–140. doi:10.1080/03014223.1986.10422654. ISSN 0301-4223.
  4. Philpott, Alfred (1914). "Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 46: 118–121 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. "Draft Terrestrial Ecology Report - Vegetation and Fauna of the Proposed Te Kuha Mine site" (PDF). Department of Conservation. Mitchell Partnerships. October 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  6. Schmidt, Olga (21 March 2016). "Larval food plants of Australian Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) - a review of available data". Biodiversity Data Journal. 4 (4): e7938. doi:10.3897/BDJ.4.e7938. PMC 4822076. PMID 27099558.


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