Paranotoreas brephosata

Paranotoreas brephosata is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand.

Paranotoreas brephosata
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Paranotoreas
Species:
P. brephosata
Binomial name
Paranotoreas brephosata
(Walker, 1862)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Fidonia brephosata Walker, 1862
  • Larentia catocalaria Guenée, 1868
  • Fidonia brephos Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Pasithea vulcanica Meyrick 1883

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1862 and given the name Fidonia brephosata.[3][1]

George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1898 book New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera) and his 1928 book The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand under the name Notoreas brephos.[4][5][2] In 1986 Robin C. Craw proposed placing this species within the genus Paranotoreas.[6] The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Hudson described the species as follows:

The expansion of the wings is about 1 inch. The fore-wings are dark grey; there is a wavy black line near the base, two similar lines enclosing a very broad central area, with a black dot a little above the middle; beyond this there is a more or less distinct wavy band of pale grey or brown; there are several obscure wavy blackish lines near the termen. The hind-wings are bright orange, dotted with grey near the base and dorsum, with from two to four more or less distinct wavy black transverse lines, generally rather narrow; the termen is moderately broadly bordered with black.[4]

References
  1. "Paranotoreas brephosata (Walker, 1862)". New Zealand Organisms Register. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  2. Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera-annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 186 – via Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
  3. Walker, Francis (1862). "Geometrites (continued)". List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. 24: 1037 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. Hudson, George Vernon (1898). New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera). London: West, Newman & Co. pp. 75–76.
  5. Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 126.
  6. Craw, R.C. (5 January 2012). "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.


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