Elachista antipodensis

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Elachista antipodensis
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Holotype
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Elachista
Species:
E. antipodensis
Binomial name
Elachista antipodensis
(Dugdale, 1971) [1]
Synonyms [1]
  • Irenicodes galatheae subsp. antipodensisDugdale, 1971
  • Elachista galatheae subsp. antipodensis(Dugdale, 1971)

Elachista antipodensis is a moth in the family Elachistidae. [1] It was first described by John S. Dugdale in 1971. It is endemic to New Zealand and found on the Antipodes Islands.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by John S. Dugdale in 1971. [2] [3] Dugdale originally believed it to be a subspecies of Irenicodes galatheae and named it Irenicodes galatheae antipodensis. [2] In 1977 Ernst Traugott-Olsen and Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen confirmed that the genus Irenicodes was synonymised with Elachista. [4] In 1999 Lauri Kaila raised this subspecies to species rank. [5] The justification for this change was given in 2019 and was based on the differences in male genitalia between E. galatheae and E. antipodensis. [1] The male holotype specimen, collected on Antipodes Island, is held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. [3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand and is found on the Antipodes Islands. [6] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lauri Kaila (11 July 2019). "An annotated catalogue of Elachistinae of the World (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae)". Zootaxa . 4632 (1): 1–231. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4632.1.1. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   31712495. Wikidata   Q86984314.
  2. 1 2 3 Dugdale, J. S. (10 November 1971). "Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of New Zealand: Lepidoptera, excluding non-crambine Pyralidae". Pacific Insects Monographs . 27: 55–172. ISSN   0078-7515. Wikidata   Q64006453.
  3. 1 2 Dugdale , J. S. (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 112. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  4. ↑ Traugott-Olsen, Ernst; Schmidt Nielsen, Ebbe (1977). "On the status of the genera Irenicodes Meyrick, 1919 and Euproteodes Viette, 1954 (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae)" . Insect Systematics & Evolution. 8 (4): 317–318. doi:10.1163/187631277X00413. ISSN   1399-560X.
  5. ↑ Kaila, LaurI. (April 1999). "Phylogeny and classification of the Elachistidae s.s . (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)" . Systematic Entomology. 24 (2): 139–169. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00069.x. ISSN   0307-6970. S2CID   84263658.
  6. ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 459. ISBN   978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC   973607714. OL   25288394M. Wikidata   Q45922947.


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