Chloroclystis sphragitis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Geometridae
- Genus
- Chloroclystis
- Species
- Chloroclystis sphragitis
- Scientific Name
- Chloroclystis sphragitis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chloroclystis sphragitis
Chloroclystis sphragitis is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it has been recorded in both the North and South Islands. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1888 using specimens collected in Wellington and Christchurch in February.
Adults are highly variable, the colouring resembling bird droppings. The forewings are pale ochreous with a narrow darker area at the base followed by a narrow oblique pale band, then a broad central band, a rather narrow curved pale band and finally several small irregular patches on the termen. The hindwings are pale ochreous with numerous wavy, pale brown lines on the dorsum. Adults are on wing from September to February.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Chloroclystis acervicosta
- Chloroclystis actephilae
- Chloroclystis alpnista
- Chloroclystis ambundata
- Chloroclystis analyta
- Chloroclystis androgyna
- Chloroclystis angelica
- Chloroclystis annimasi
- Chloroclystis apotoma
- Chloroclystis approximata
- Chloroclystis athaumasta
- Chloroclystis atroviridis
- Chloroclystis autopepla
- Chloroclystis biangulata
- Chloroclystis blanda
- Chloroclystis boarmica
- Chloroclystis bosora
- Chloroclystis breyniae
- Chloroclystis catastreptes
- Chloroclystis catoglypta
- Chloroclystis celidota
- Chloroclystis coelica
- Chloroclystis coloptila
- Chloroclystis comorana
- Chloroclystis consocer
- Chloroclystis continuata
- Chloroclystis conversa
- Chloroclystis costicavata
- Chloroclystis cryptolopha
- Chloroclystis cuneilinea
- Chloroclystis decimana
- Chloroclystis delosticha
- Chloroclystis dentatissima
- Chloroclystis distigma
- Chloroclystis eichhorni
- Chloroclystis elaeopa
- Chloroclystis elaiachroma
- Chloroclystis embolocosma
- Chloroclystis ericinellae
- Chloroclystis excisa
- Chloroclystis exilipicta
- Chloroclystis exsanguis
- Chloroclystis filata
- Chloroclystis flaviornata
- Chloroclystis fragilis
- Chloroclystis gerberae
- Chloroclystis gonias
- Chloroclystis grisea
- Chloroclystis guttifera
- Chloroclystis gymnoscelides
- Chloroclystis hawkinsi
- Chloroclystis hypopyrrha
- Chloroclystis hypotmeta
- Chloroclystis ignava
- Chloroclystis impudicis
- Chloroclystis inaequata
- Chloroclystis inductata
- Chloroclystis infrazebrina
- Chloroclystis inops
- Chloroclystis invisibilis
- Chloroclystis kampalensis
- Chloroclystis katherina
- Chloroclystis laetitia
- Chloroclystis latifasciata
- Chloroclystis leucopygata
- Chloroclystis lichenodes
- Chloroclystis linda
- Chloroclystis luciana
- Chloroclystis macroaedeagus
- Chloroclystis malachitis
- Chloroclystis manusela
- Chloroclystis mariae
- Chloroclystis metallospora
- Chloroclystis mira
- Chloroclystis mniochroa
- Chloroclystis mokensis
- Chloroclystis muscosa
- Chloroclystis naga
- Chloroclystis neoconversa
- Chloroclystis nepalensis
- Chloroclystis nereis
- Chloroclystis nigrilineata
- Chloroclystis nudifunda
- Chloroclystis obturgescens
- Chloroclystis olivata
- Chloroclystis omocydia
- Chloroclystis onusta
- Chloroclystis pallidiplaga
- Chloroclystis palmaria
- Chloroclystis papillosa
- Chloroclystis parthenia
- Chloroclystis pauxillula
- Chloroclystis perissa
- Chloroclystis perlas
- Chloroclystis permixta
- Chloroclystis phoenicophaes
- Chloroclystis phoenochyta
- Chloroclystis pitoi
- Chloroclystis plinthochyta
- Chloroclystis poliophrica
- Chloroclystis polygraphata
- Chloroclystis primivernalis
- Chloroclystis pugnax
- Chloroclystis pygmaeica
- Chloroclystis pyrrholopha
- Chloroclystis pyrsodonta
- Chloroclystis rectaria
- Chloroclystis rhodopis
- Chloroclystis rietzi
- Chloroclystis roetschkei
- Chloroclystis rostrata
- Chloroclystis rotundaria
- Chloroclystis rubicunda
- Chloroclystis rubrinotata
- Chloroclystis rubroviridis
- Chloroclystis rufitincta
- Chloroclystis rufofasciata
- Chloroclystis ruptiscripta
- Chloroclystis schoenei
- Chloroclystis semiscripta
- Chloroclystis senex
- Chloroclystis sierraria
- Chloroclystis solidifascia
- Chloroclystis sordida
- Chloroclystis speciosa
- Chloroclystis sphragitis
- Chloroclystis spissidentata
- Chloroclystis stenophrica
- Chloroclystis taraxichroma
- Chloroclystis taxata
- Chloroclystis thermastobrita
- Chloroclystis toreumata
- Chloroclystis torninubis
- Chloroclystis tortuosa
- Chloroclystis tridentata
- Chloroclystis v-ata
- Chloroclystis variospila
- Chloroclystis velutina
- Chloroclystis viridata
- Chloroclystis viridigrisea
- Chloroclystis xenisma
- Chloroclystis zhuoxinensis































































































































































