Culladia strophaea

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Culladia strophaea
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male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Culladia
Species:
C. strophaea
Binomial name
Culladia strophaea
(Meyrick, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Argyria strophaeaMeyrick, 1905
  • Metasia strophaea(Meyrick, 1905)

Culladia strophaea is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. [1] It is endemic to New Zealand. [1] [2] The taxonomy of this species is currently uncertain.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1905 as Argyria strophaea using specimens collected in Wellington by George Hudson. [3] [4] Hudson discussed and illustrated the species under this name in his 1928 book The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. [5] The lectotype of this species is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [4]

In 1973 D. E. Gaskin placed A. strophaea within the genus Culladia. [6] This placement is currently under debate and is regarded by some scientists as erroneous. [7] As a result, this species is also referred to as Argyria (s.l.) strophaea or alternatively by its original name despite the later also being regarded as erroneous. [8] [9]

Description

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂︎♀︎. 15-18 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, partially yellowish-tinged, and sprinkled with dark grey. Palpi 4, grey, darker-sprinkled, whitish above and towards base beneath. Antennae ochreous-whitish, obscurely ringed with dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish irrorated with dark grey. Fore-wings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique, faintly waved ; pale brassy-ochreous, suffusedly mixed with white, and irrorated with dark grey ; subbasal line white, edged anteriorly with dark fuscous, angulated near costa, obsolete towards dorsum ; first and second lines white, more or less edged with dark fuscous, first obtusely angulated above middle, second sinuate inwards towards dorsum, preceded on costa by a small dark fuscous spot ; a small roundish dark fuscous spot in disc before middle ; a narrow white transverse mark in disc beyond middle; a terminal series of dark fuscous lunulate marks: cilia whitish, with a fuscous subapical Hue, basal half barred with fuscous. Hind-wings grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia as in fore-wings. [3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [1] [8] This species can be found in the North Island as well as in the provinces of Nelson and Westland in the South Island. [6] Other than the type locality of Wellington, this species has also been found at Whakarewarewa, Raurimu, Whanganui, [5] Haruru falls in the Bay of Islands, Lake Taupo, Bluff Hill in Napier, and at Lake Rotorua. [6]

Biology and behaviour

Larvae of this species have been found in soil. [10] This species is on the wing in January. [5] Specimens of this species have been collected with mercury vapour light traps and 15watt UV light traps. [11] [10] Alfred Philpott studied the male genitalia of this species in 1929. [12]

Host species and habitat

It frequents stony cuttings, often by roadsides, near forest habitat. [5]

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References

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