Gellonia dejectaria

Gellonia dejectaria
	Female
	Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Gellonia
Species:	G. dejectaria
Binomial name
	Gellonia dejectaria; (Walker, 1860)
Synonyms
	Boarmia dejectaria Walker, 1860 ; Selidosema dejectaria ( Walker, 1860) ;

Gellonia dejectaria, the brown evening moth, is a moth in the family Geometridae.^[2]The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1860. It is endemic to New Zealand.^[1]

G. dejectaria larvae eat the leaves of the māhoe, supplejack and bush lawyer plants.^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Gellonia dejectaria (Walker, 1860)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 165. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021.
^ "PlantSynz - Invertebrate herbivore biodiversity assessment tool: Database". plant-synz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
^ "Brown Evening Moth, Gellonia dejectaria". www.terrain.net.nz. Taranaki Educational Resource: Research, Analysis and Information Network. Retrieved 22 May 2012.

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