''Megalotica aphoristis'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the island of

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...

. It has a bronzy-brown coloration. Robert Cyril Layton Perkins (1913) noted that this species has been recorded flying during the day and has habits rather similar to those of ''

Megalotica holombra ''Megalotica holombra'' is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian volcano Haleakalā on the island of Maui The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest ...

''.

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* Larentiinae Endemic moths of Hawaii {{Larentiinae-stub