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Australian lucerne leafroller,Merophyas divulsana(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), in New Zealand
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Patrick, Brian Dugdale, John |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | The Australian lucerne leafroller (LLR), Merophyas divulsana (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), first recorded from New Zealand in Central Otago, is now known from northern and eastern sites in the North Island and from Westland. In New Zealand it has been found associated with Lotus pedunculatus, but not with lucerne. Adults are dark grey ventrally, with grey hindwings, thereby differing from the endemic M. leucaniana, which is pallid ventrally with pale whitish fawn hindwings. The adults are thought to have been carried to New Zealand in a low pressure system (depression) during 1987–88, at a time of high population levels in eastern New South Wales. M. divulsana adults from New Zealand agree in genitalic details with specimens in CSIRO, Canberra, characteristic of populations in lucerne below the 200 m contour in north‐eastern New South Wales. |
| Related Links | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03014223.1994.9517999?needAccess=true |
| Ending Page | 308 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| Starting Page | 305 |
| ISSN | 03014223 |
| e-ISSN | 11758821 |
| DOI | 10.1080/03014223.1994.9517999 |
| Journal | New Zealand Journal of Zoology |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 21 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 1994-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: New Zealand Journal of Zoology Zoology Australian Lucerne Leafroller Merophyas Divulsana First Record Host Plants Central Otago New South Wales Pheromones New Zealand Records Dispersal Trans‐tasman Colonisation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Animal Science and Zoology |
