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Species of moth

Aponotoreas insignis
Male specimen
Female specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Larentiinae
Tribe: Hydriomenini
Genus: Aponotoreas
Species: A. insignis
Binomial name
Aponotoreas insignis
(Butler, 1877)
Synonyms
  • Aspilates insignis Butler, 1877
  • Notoreas insignis Butler, 1877)

Aponotoreas insignis (also known as the Alpine grassland orange) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877 from specimens collected by James Hector and John Enys. Butler originally named the species Aspilates insignis. In 1986 Robin C. Craw described the new genus Aponotoreas and included A. insignis within it.

Behaviour

This moth is day flying. Adults of the species can be found on the wing between January and March.

Habitat and hosts

A. insignis prefers to inhabit tussock land on the mountain sides of the South Island. Larvae exist on species of Chionochloa and Poa.

References

  1. "Taxon: Aponotoreas insignis (Butler, 1877) | Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  2. "Aponotoreas insignis (Butler, 1877)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  3. ^ Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 170–171. ISSN 0111-5383. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Butler, A. G. (1877). "On two collections of heterocerous Lepidoptera from New Zealand, with descriptions of new genera and species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1877:May-Dec.: 379–407 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  6. ^ Crowe, Andrew (2017). Which New Zealand insect?. Penguin Books. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-14-100636-9.
  7. "Aponotoreas insignis (Butler, 1877)". plant-synz.landcareresearch.co.nz. 2011. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2021-02-21.

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Taxon identifiers
Aponotoreas insignis


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