Asaphodes

Asaphodes
Female of Asaphodes abrogata, type species of Asaphodes.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Larentiinae
Genus: Asaphodes
Meyrick 1885[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Thyone Meyrick, 1883
  • Xanthorhoe (non Huebner, 1825) Meyrick, 1917

Asaphodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1885.[2][3] This genus is endemic to New Zealand and species within this genus are found throughout New Zealand including the North, South and Stewart / Rakiura Islands.

Taxonomy

This genus was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as a replacement name for the genus Thyone.[4][3] Meyrick gave more detail in 1886 as well as in 1892.[5][6] This genus was reinterpreted by John S. Dugdale in 1971.[7][3] Dugdale stated that the species within this genus

are distinguished from other genera by their possession of a rudimentary calcar (often a pair of contiguous hairy knobs), of a smooth, unscobinate saccular appendage, a deflexed, strongly sclerotised, sharp aedeagus apex in the ♂, and in the ♀ by the ductus bursae being not longer than wide, and containing the internally prolonged and fused ostiolar lamellae. The corpus bursae is reflexed dorsad of the ductus bursae. As in Helastia species, the ductus seminalis arises on the corpus bursae by the corpus/ductus bursae junction.[7]

The type species of this genus is Asaphodes abrogata, by original monotypy.[7]

Description

Meyrick described this genus as follows:

Face with tuft or hardly projecting scales. Palpi moderate, porrected, rough-scaled. Antennae in ♂ bipectinated, apex simple. Thorax glabrous beneath. Posterior tibiae with all spurs present. Fore wings with areole simple. Hind wings with 8 anastomosing with cell from near base to beyond middle.[6]

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand and species within this genus are found throughout New Zealand including in the North, South and Stewart Island / Rakiura Islands.[1][7][3]

Species

The species found in the genus Asaphodes include:

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Asaphodes Walker, 1862". New Zealand Organisms Register. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  2. ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (5 November 2004). "Asaphodes Meyrick, 1885". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d Dugdale , J. S. (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 171. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  4. ^ Edward Meyrick (1885). "Notes on the nomenclature of the New Zealand Geometrina". New Zealand Journal of Science. 2: 589. Wikidata Q109608428.
  5. ^ Edward Meyrick (May 1886). "Notes on Nomenclature of New Zealand". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 18: 184. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q109615399.
  6. ^ a b Edward Meyrick (1892). "VI. On the classification of the European fauna". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 40 (1): 76. doi:10.1111/J.1365-2311.1892.TB03048.X. ISSN 0035-8894. Wikidata Q56158749.
  7. ^ a b c d Dugdale, J. S. (10 November 1971). "Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of New Zealand: Lepidoptera, excluding non-crambine Pyralidae". Pacific Insects Monographs. 27: 93–95. ISSN 0078-7515. Wikidata Q64006453.