| 词条 | Forest ringlet |
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| image = Dodonidia helmsii (Butler, 1884) AMNZ83867.jpg | image_caption = Upperside | image2 = Dodonidia helmsii (Butler, 1884) Underside AMNZ83867.jpg | image2_caption = Underside | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | ordo = Lepidoptera | familia = Nymphalidae | tribus = Satyrini | subtribus = Hypocystina | genus = Dodonidia | genus_authority = Butler, 1884 | species = D. helmsii | binomial = Dodonidia helmsii | binomial_authority = Butler, 1884[1] | synonyms = [Dodonidia] helmsi Fereday, 1883 | synonyms_ref = }} The forest ringlet (Dodonidia helmsii), also known as Helms' butterfly, is a rare butterfly of the family Nymphalidae endemic to New Zealand. It is the only species in the genus Dodonidia. TaxonomyThe forest ringlet was first described by Richard William Fereday from a specimen collected in the Paparoa Range by a Mr R. Helms of Greymouth. Fereday gave it the specific name helmsi, but would not speculate as to its genus.[2] The species was properly named in 1884 by Arthur Gardiner Butler, who coined the genus Dodonidia, from its resemblance to the Asian Dodona butterflies, and corrected the spelling of the species name to D. Helmsii (now D. helmsii).[3] Because it was named after Helms, it is properly known as "Helms' butterfly", although this is often misspelled as "Helm's butterfly". The name "forest ringlet" is more commonly used. EcologyThe forest ringlet caterpillar is nocturnal and feeds on "cutty grass" (Gahnia) and bush snowgrass (Chionochloa) from spring to early autumn. Adults live for three or four weeks and are fast-flying, found in January and February in clearings or near forest edges, mainly in beech (Nothofagus) forest north of about Lewis Pass.[4] ConservationDodonidia helmsii was once widespread in New Zealand, including the Wellington and Auckland area, but has become significantly rarer over the last 50 years.[4] There are two causes: the increasing rarity in lowland areas of the sedges that are its food plant, and the introduction of predatory wasps to New Zealand that prey on its larvae.[5] Forest ringlets have disappeared from forest below 400 m altitude, but are still found at 600 m or higher, the altitudinal limit for the German and common wasps.[6] This species has been classified as having the "At Risk, Relict" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.[7]References1. ^{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/dodonidia/#helmsii |title=Dodonidia helmsii Butler, 1884 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=February 28, 2018}} 2. ^{{Cite journal|last=Fereday|first=R. W.|date=1883|title=Description of a Species of Butterfly new to New Zealand and probably to Science|url=https://archive.org/stream/transactionspro151882newz#page/194/mode/1up|journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute|volume=15|pages=193–195}} 3. ^{{Cite journal|last=Butler|first=Arthur G.|date=1884|title=On a new Genus of Butterfly from New Zealand|url=https://archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof5131884lond#page/171/mode/1up|journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology|series=5|volume=13|pages=171–173}} 4. ^1 {{Cite book|title=Which New Zealand Insect?|last=Crowe|first=Andrew|publisher=Penguin|year=2002|isbn=0-14-100636-6|location=Auckland|pages=14|via=}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.terrain.net.nz/friends-of-te-henui-group/local-butterflies-moths/butterfly-forest-ringlet-dodonidia-helmsii.html|title=Forest ringlet butterfly (Dodonidia helmsii)|last=|first=|date=|website=T.E.R:R.A.I.N. – Taranaki Educational Resource: Research Analysis and Education Network|publisher=|access-date=30 September 2016}} 6. ^{{Cite journal|last=Hansford|first=Dave|title=Ghosts of Summer|url=https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/ghosts-of-summer/|journal=New Zealand Geographic|publication-date=Jan–Feb 2009|volume=|issue=95}} 7. ^{{Cite journal|last=Hoare|first=R.J.B.|last2=Dugdale|first2=J.S.|last3=Edwards,|first3=E.D.|last4=Gibbs|first4=G.W.|last5=Patrick|first5=B.H.|last6=Hitchmough|first6=R.A.|last7=Rolfe|first7=J.R.|date=2017|title=Conservation status of New Zealand butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), 2015|url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/nztcs20entire.pdf|journal=New Zealand Threat Classification Series|volume=20|page=7|via=}} External links{{Commons category}}{{Wikispecies|Dodonidia helmsii}}
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