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Asaphodes periphaea
Asaphodes periphaea is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand and has only been collected in the mountains near Lake Wakatipu in the South Island. The male is fuscous coloured sprinkled with whitish colouration. The female is brachypterous. The preferred habitat of this species are alpine bluffs as well as mountainous open country. This species is on the wing from January to March.
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Description
Meyrick first described this species as follows:
♂ . 26 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous sprinkled with whitish. Fore-wings triangular, termen slightly bowed, oblique; light fuscous, sprinkled with darker fuscous and whitish; two very obscurely darker fasciae indicating median band, first curved, preceded by several white dots, second irregularly curved outwards on upper 3⁄5, followed by a series of white dots; some whitish dots indicating subterminal line, edged with obscure darker shades : cilia fuscous-whitish, with two fuscous lines. Hind-wings rather elongate, light fuscous; cilia as in fore-wings.The female of this species is brachypterous and was first collected in January 1987.
Range & habitat
This species is endemic to New Zealand. A. periphaea has only been collected in the mountains in the north, west and south of Lake Wakatipu. In January 1897 this species as found at Slate Basin and Jane Peak in Otago.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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