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Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Homodotis
Species:	H. megaspilata
Binomial name
*Homodotis megaspilata* (Walker, 1862)
Synonyms
Larentia megaspilata Walker, 1862 Cidaria assata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 Cidaria nehata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875

Homodotis megaspilata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1862 under the name Larentia megaspilata using a specimen from T. R. Oxley's collection. It was also described by Baron Cajetan von Felder, Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875 as Cidaria assata and Cidaria nehata. These later names were synonymised by Edward Meyrick in 1883 and the species was described in more detail in 1884.

Distribution

H. megaspilata is common throughout New Zealand.

Description

This species is extremely variable in appearance.

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