Dichromodes sphaeriata

Dichromodes sphaeriata is a moth of the family Geometridae.^[2] It is endemic to New Zealand.

Dichromodes sphaeriata
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Dichromodes
Species:	D. sphaeriata
Binomial name
Dichromodes sphaeriata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms[1]
Cidaria sphaeriata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 Dichromodes petrina Meyrick, 1892

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Cajetan von Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875 using a specimen collected in Nelson by T. R. Oxley and originally named this species Cidaria sphaeriata.^[3][1] In 1892 Edward Meyrick, thinking he was describing a new species, named it Dichromodes petrina. Prout synonymised this name in 1912. The male holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.^[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.^[4]