Asaphodes cosmodora

Asaphodes cosmodora is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand.

Asaphodes cosmodora
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Asaphodes
Species:
A. cosmodora
Binomial name
Asaphodes cosmodora
(Meyrick, 1888)[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Larentia cosmodora Meyrick, 1888
  • Xanthorhoe cosmodora (Meyrick, 1888)
  • Larentia bryopis Meyrick, 1888
  • Xanthorhoe bryopis (Meyrick, 1888)

Taxonomy

A. cosmodora was described by Edward Meyrick in 1888 as Larentia cosmodora using material he collected at Gordon's Pyramid on Mount Arthur in January.[2][4] The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Meyrick originally described the species as follows:

Female. — 27 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs whitish-ochreous, slightly brownish-tinged; abdomen with a double dorsal series of dark fuscous dots. Forewings with costa hardly perceptibly arched, hindmargin slightly rounded, oblique; whitish-ochreous, slightly yellowish-tinged; a curved irregular black line rather near base, followed by a white line; median band rather darker, tinged with yellowish-fuscous towards edges, margined with dentate black lines and outside these with white, anterior from ​1⁄3 of costa to ​2⁄5 of inner margin, rather curved, posterior from ​2⁄3 of costa to ​3⁄4 of inner margin, somewhat prominent beneath costa, and with a more distinct double prominence in middle; two white dentate-edged spots within median band, first beneath costa, containing small black discal dot, second on inner margin; a waved white subterminal line; a fine dark fuscous hindmarginal line interrupted into numerous dots: cilia whitish-ochreous, with dark fuscous bars hardly reaching base. Hindwings whitish-ochreous, with faint darker greyish-tinged lines ; a median band of four more distinct cloudy grey lines, first three straight, fourth well-marked, rather dark fuscous, waved, somewhat prominent in middle, beneath confluent with third; a faint white subterminal line; cilia pale whitish-ochreous, with a faint greyish line tending to form spots.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1][5] Along with mountainous areas in the Kahurangi National Park, this species has also been found in the Dansey ecological district in Otago at altitudes of between 1000 and 1300 m.[6]

Biology and life cycle

A. cosmodora can be found on the wing in January and February.[6]

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References
  1. "Asaphodes cosmodora (Meyrick, 1888)". www.nzor.org.nz. Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Ltd. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  2. Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 1–269. ISBN 0477025188. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  3. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Asaphodes cosmodora". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  4. Meyrick, Edward (1888). "Notes on New Zealand Geometrina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 20: 47–62 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume Two. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 459. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
  6. Patrick, B.H. (1991). Insects of the Dansey Ecological District (PDF). Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Conservation, New Zealand. p. 17. ISBN 0-478-01285-3. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
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