Biology:Dichromodes sphaeriata
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Short description: Species of moth endemic to New Zealand
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Dichromodes |
| Species: | D. sphaeriata
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| 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
This species was first described by Rudolf Felder, Cajetan von Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875 using a specimen collected in Nelson by T. R. Oxley and named Cidaria sphaeriata.[3][1] In 1892 Edward Meyrick, thinking he was describing a new species, named it Dichromodes petrina. Prout synonymised this name in The male holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[1]
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand.[4]
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 , pp. 192, Wikidata Q45083134
- ↑ , pp. 460, Wikidata Q45922947
- ↑ von Felder, Cajetan; Rogenhofer, Alois Friedrich (1875). Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. 2. Wien. pp. Plate CXXXI Figure 14. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1221364.
- ↑ "Dichromodes sphaeriata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)". https://www.nzor.org.nz/names/430fca6a-29c1-4edd-8431-d56f007c46ac.
Wikidata ☰ Q13536141 entry
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