Asaphodes oraria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Asaphodes
- Species
- Asaphodes oraria
- Scientific Name
- Asaphodes oraria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Asaphodes oraria
Asaphodes oraria is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the southern South Island and on Stewart Island / Rakiura. The male is pale yellow coloured and the female has severely reduced wings and is flightless. The habitat of this species is tussock grasslands on coastal sand dunes and in the mountains at elevations of approximately 4,000 ft. The larvae have adapted to feeding on exotic lawn daisy species in the genus Bellis. The adults of this species are on the wing from November to April.
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Sibling Taxa
- Asaphodes abrogata
- Asaphodes adonis
- Asaphodes aegrota
- Asaphodes albalineata
- Asaphodes aphelias
- Asaphodes beata
- Asaphodes camelias
- Asaphodes campbellensis
- Asaphodes cataphracta
- Asaphodes chionogramma
- Asaphodes chlamydota
- Asaphodes chlorocapna
- Asaphodes cinnabari
- Asaphodes citroena
- Asaphodes clarata
- Asaphodes cosmodora
- Asaphodes declarata
- Asaphodes dionysias
- Asaphodes exoriens
- Asaphodes frivola
- Asaphodes glaciata
- Asaphodes helias
- Asaphodes ida
- Asaphodes imperfecta
- Asaphodes limonodes
- Asaphodes mnesichola
- Asaphodes nephelias
- Asaphodes obarata
- Asaphodes omichlias
- Asaphodes oraria
- Asaphodes oxyptera
- Asaphodes periphaea
- Asaphodes philpotti
- Asaphodes prasinias
- Asaphodes prymnaea
- Asaphodes recta
- Asaphodes sericodes
- Asaphodes stephanitis
- Asaphodes stinaria
