Megalotica holombra

Megalotica holombra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Megalotica
Species: M. holombra
Binomial name
Megalotica holombra
(Meyrick, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Dasyuris holombra Meyrick, 1899

Megalotica holombra is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian volcano Haleakalā on the island of Maui.[1]

It is almost entirely brown with a bronze reflection. The lines on the forewings are not strongly marked, and the hindwings and under surfaces of the wings are concolorous.[1]

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins (1913) noted: "this conspicuous dark-coloured, day-flying moth, of which two specimens are recorded, I observed in hundreds, if not thousands on one occasion, flying in the forest on Maui, but being always hampered with a gun and much occupied with birds, I neglected to catch a series and did not again have the chance."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii. 7 Macrolepidoptera. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
  2. Perkins, Robert Cyril Layton (1913). Introductory essay on the fauna. Princeton University: University Press. pp. xxxix.


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