Dichromodes sphaeriata
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| Dichromodes sphaeriata | |
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| File:Dichromodes sphaeriata female.jpg | |
| Female | |
| File:Dichromodes sphaeriata male.jpg | |
| Male | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Dichromodes |
| Species: | D. sphaeriata
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| Binomial name | |
| Dichromodes sphaeriata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
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Dichromodes sphaeriata is a moth of the family Geometridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]This species is endemic to New Zealand.[4]
References
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