Aponotoreas insignis

Aponotoreas insignis
Male specimen
Female specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Geometridae
Genus:Aponotoreas
Species: A. insignis
Binomial name
Aponotoreas insignis
(Butler, 1877)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Aspilates insignis Butler, 1877

Aponotoreas insignis is a moth of the family Geometridae.[3] It is endemic to New Zealand.[4]

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877.[5] In 1986 R. C. Craw described the new genus Aponotoreas and included A. insignis within it.[4]

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. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  4. 1 2 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: 379–407 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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