Notoreas atmogramma
Species of moth endemic to New Zealand
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Notoreas atmogramma is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is a day flying moth that frequents alpine habitat.
| Notoreas atmogramma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Notoreas |
| Species: | N. atmogramma |
| Binomial name | |
| Notoreas atmogramma Meyrick, 1911 | |
Taxonomy
This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911 using material collected by George Hudson at Mount Holdsworth in the Tararua Range at an altitude of approximately 1200m.[1][2] Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand.[3] The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[1]
Description
Meyrick described the species as follows:
♀︎. 25-27 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax black, mixed with whitish-ochreous-yellowish hairs and scales. Abdomen black, mixed on sides with whitish-yellow, segmental margins slenderly whitish. Forewings triangular, costa straight, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather oblique; dark fuscous, with a few scattered pale - yellowish scales; lines cloudy, light - yellowish, subbasal, first (and second partially) whitish, first curved, median very indefinite, second angulated in middle, subterminal irregular : cilia white, basal half fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded; colour and markings as in forewings, but basal area irrorated with pale yellowish, subbasal and first lines obsolete, second somewhat bent in middle : cilia as in forewings. Under-surface of all wings light ochreous-yellow; first and second lines indistinctly indicated by whitish suffusion; forewings with some incomplete cloudy blackish lines; hindwings with a blackish discal mark.[2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand.[4][5] Along with Mount Holdsworth, this species has been found at Mount Taranaki,[6] the Pouakai Range in Taranaki,[7] and Lewis Pass.[8]
