Asterivora chatuidea

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Asterivora chatuidea
Asterivora chatuidea (Clarke, 1926) Male AMNZ14054.jpg
Male syntype specimen
Asterivora chatuidea (Clarke, 1926) Female AMNZ14053.jpg
Female syntype specimen
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Choreutidae
Genus: Asterivora
Species:
A. chatuidea
Binomial name
Asterivora chatuidea
(Clarke, 1926) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Simaethis chatuideaClarke, 1926

Asterivora chatuidea is a moth of the family Choreutidae. It is endemic to New Zealand and has been collected in and around Dunedin. The larvae of this species are leaf miners and hosts include Helichrysum lanceolatum, Olearia quinquevulnera and Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum. Adults of this species has been recorded as being on the wing in November, January and February.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Charles E. Clarke in 1926 using 12 specimens collected in November at Vauxhall, Andersons Bay in Dunedin. [3] Clarke originally named the species Simaethis chatuidea. [4] [3] In 1979 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Asterivora. [4] In 1988 Dugdale confirmed this placement. [2] The male holotype specimen, as well as other specimens using in the naming of this species, are held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. [5]

Description

The wingspan is about 8 mm for males and 9 mm for females. The head and thorax are dark fuscous irrorated with violet-whitish scales and the antennae are blackish annulated with white. The abdomen is dark fuscous, although the segmental margins are white and there are a few scattered white scales near the extremity. The legs are fuscous. The dark blue-violet forewings are suboblong, moderate, the costa gently arched, the apex obtuse, the termen nearly straight and oblique. There are three distinct white spots on the costa and there is a pale blue-violet transverse line, as well as some violet-white irroration towards the base. There is also a transverse, sometimes double, line running from the first white spot on the costa and another running from the central costal spot. This line is broken but often well angulated at the middle. There is some violet-white irroration scattered across the outer wing and a fine subterminal line. The hindwings are dark fuscous, but darker outwardly. There is an incurved white streak, sometimes double, running from the disc to the tornus. [3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [6] It has been collected in and around Dunedin. [7]

Behaviour

The adults of this species is on the wing in November, January and February. [5]

Hosts

Helichrysum lanceolatum, a larval host plant of A. chatuidea. Helichrysum lanceolatum 160003333.jpg
Helichrysum lanceolatum, a larval host plant of A. chatuidea.

The larvae of A. chatuidea are leaf miners and form distinctive damage on their host plants. [8] These include Helichrysum lanceolatum, Olearia quinquevulnera and Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum. [8] [9]

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References

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  2. 1 2 John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 113. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 3 Clarke, Charles E. (1926). "New Species of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 417–421. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  4. 1 2 J. S. Dugdale (July 1979). "A new generic name for the New Zealand species previously assigned to Simaethis auctorum (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae), with description of a new species". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 6 (3): 461–466. doi:10.1080/03014223.1979.10428386. ISSN   0301-4223. Wikidata   Q54576372.
  5. 1 2 "Asterivora chatuidea". Auckland Museum Collections Online. 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-02-03. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  6. ↑ "Asterivora chatuidea (Clarke, 1926)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
  7. ↑ "Asterivora chatuidea Clarke, 1926". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  8. 1 2 "Asterivora chatuidea (Clarke, 1926) Herbivore Report". plant-synz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  9. ↑ Brian H. Patrick (1991). Insects of the Dansey Ecological District (PDF). Vol. 32. pp. 1–25. ISBN   0-478-01285-3. ISSN   0113-3713. Wikidata   Q110318301. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2021.{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
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