Scotorythra goniastis is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands of Maui and Hawaii.
Scotorythra goniastis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Geometridae |
Genus: | Scotorythra |
Species: | S. goniastis
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Binomial name | |
Scotorythra goniastis |
References
edit- ^ Meyrick, E. (1899). "Scotorythra goniastis, sp. nov.". Macrolepidoptera. Fauna Hawaiiensis. Vol. 1 (2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 180–181.
Further reading
edit- Meyrick, E. (1900). "New Hawaiian Lepidoptera". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 36 (438): 258.
To this species also I now refer without doubt the specimen (of unknown locality) formerly assigned by me as the ♀ of S. goniastis.
- Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). "Scotorythra goniastis". Macrolepidoptera. Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 7. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 96. hdl:10125/7336.