Archyala culta

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Archyala culta
Archyala culta AMNZ21741.jpg
Male holotype specimen
Status NZTCS DD.svg
Data Deficient (NZ TCS) [1]
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Archyala
Species:
A. culta
Binomial name
Archyala culta
Philpott, 1931

Archyala culta is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation. This species has only been collected at Opoho and is only known from its type specimen.

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Taxonomy

This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1931 from a specimen collected by Charles E. Clarke at Opoho, Dunedin on the 17 December 1921. [2] [3] [4] In 1939 George Hudson discussed and illustrated the species. [5] The holotype specimen is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. [3]

Description

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Illustration of male.

Philpott described the species as follows:

♂. 15 mm. Head and palpi greyish brown. Antennae grey annulated with fuscous. Thorax brown. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs greyish ochreous, tarsi annulated with fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa sinuate before middle, apex round-pointed termen straight, oblique; light grey: numerous fine curved transverse dark fuscous strigulae from base to apex; a very dark obscure fuscous linear marking in disc: fringes grey mixed with fuscous; base pale and a sub-basal blackish fuscous line. Hindwings purplish fuscous, darker apically: fringes dark greyish fuscous with darker basal line. [2]

Hudson stated that this species could be distinguished by the peculiar outline of the costa of fore-wings, and absence of any tendency for the strigulae to coalesce in pairs. [5]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [6] [7] This species is only known from its type specimen and at its type locality of Opoho. [8]

Life history

It has been hypothesised that larvae of this species inhabits dead wood, boring into it and feeding on it. [8]

Conservation status

This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. [1]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Philpott, Alfred (1931). "Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 62: 26–36. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 59. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  4. ↑ "Archyala culta". Auckland War Memorial Museum . Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  5. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 464, OCLC   9742724, Wikidata   Q109420935 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  6. ↑ "Archyala culta Philpott, 1931". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  7. ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 463. ISBN   978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC   973607714. OL   25288394M. Wikidata   Q45922947.
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