Dasyuris hectori
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Dasyuris |
| Species: | D. hectori |
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Dasyuris hectori is a species of moth in the family Geometridae.[1] This species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the South Island. This species inhabits herb fields and rocky terrain in subalpine and alpine zones. Adults are day flying and are on the wing from December until February. Larvae feed on species in the genus Anisotome.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877 and originally named Euclidia hectori.[3] In 1883 Edward Meyrick placed this species in the genus Statira.[4] However, as this name was preoccupied, Meyrick then placed this species in the genus Stathmonyma.[5] In 1898 George Hudson synonymised that name and placed this species in the genus Dasyuris.[2] In that publication, New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera), Hudson redescribed and illustrated D. hectori.[2] Using that same name, in 1928 Hudson again went on to describe and illustrate this species in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[6] The female holotype, collected by James Hector or John Davies Enys in either at the Otago Lakes or mid Canterbury, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[7]
Description
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Hudson described this species as follows:
The expansion of the wings is 1+1⁄2 inches. All the wings are dark greyish-black, speckled with bluish-grey scales. The fore-wings have live rather indistinct wavy darker transverse lines, and a very broad darker shading near the termen ; there is a fine white mark near the apex, continued as an indistinct wavy line towards the tornus. The hind-wings have three or four indistinct darker transverse lines, and a very broad terminal shading; there are two, more or less distinct, line, wavy, white lines, the first a. little below the middle, and the second near the termen ; the cilia are dark grey barred with pale grey. On the under side all the wings are dark blackish-grey, traversed by six broad wavy whitish lines.[2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the South Island.[8][6]
Habitat and hosts
This species frequents rocky terrain at subalpine and alpine zones at altitudes from 4,700 to 5,700 feet above the sea-level.[2] It can also be found in alpine herb fields.[9] Larvae feed on species in the genus Anisotome.[10]
Behaviour
Adults of this species are on the wing from December until February.[2] It is a fast flier and adults have been observed resting on blackened rocks in hot sunshine.[2]
References
- 1 2 Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 459. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. LCCN 2011379669. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 George Vernon Hudson (1898), New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera), Illustrator: George Hudson, London: West, Newman, & Co., p. 70, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7912, OCLC 980865393, Wikidata Q19073637 BHL page 7643667
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Arthur G. Butler (1877). "On two Collections of Heterocerous Lepidoptera from New Zealand, with descriptions of new Genera and Species". Journal of Zoology. 1877: 387. ISSN 1469-7998. Wikidata Q109479517. BHL page 28518289
- ↑ Edward Meyrick (September 1883). "Monograph of New Zealand Geometrina". New Zealand Journal of Science. 1: 529. Wikidata Q110691894. BHL page 41866184
- ↑ Edward Meyrick (1885). "Notes on the nomenclature of the New Zealand Geometrina". New Zealand Journal of Science. 2: 589. Wikidata Q109608428. BHL page 41863693
- 1 2 Hudson, G. V. (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 128, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286 BHL page 61899739 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ 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: 178. doi:10.7931/j2/fnz.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ↑ "Dasyuris hectori (Butler, 1877)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
- ↑ Brian H. Patrick (1991). "Insects of the Dansey Ecological District" (PDF). Science & Research Series. 32: 1–25. ISSN 0113-3713. OCLC 154612987. Wikidata Q110318301. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2021.
- ↑ Brian H. Patrick; Brian M. Lyford; John B. Ward; Barbara I.P. Barratt (December 1992). "Lepidoptera and other insects of the Rastus Burn Basin, The Remarkables, Otago". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 22 (4): 271. doi:10.1080/03036758.1992.10420820. ISSN 0303-6758. Wikidata Q60326057.