Elachista melanura

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Elachista melanura
Elachista melanura holotype.jpg
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: Elachistidae
Genus: Elachista
Species:
E. melanura
Binomial name
Elachista melanura
Meyrick, 1889 [2]

Elachista melanura is a species of moth in the family Elachistidae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.

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Taxonomy

This species was originally described by Edward Meyrick in 1889 using a female specimen collected in Hamilton in January. [3] [4] Hudson discussed this species in his 1928 publication The Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand. [5] The holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [4]

Description

Meyrick described the species as follows:

♂. 13mm. Head, palpi, antennæ, and thorax whitish-grey. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, with a dense black apical exsertible tuft. Legs dark fuscous, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings lanceolate; whitish-grey, somewhat irrorated with darker; an elongate black dot on fold before middle, a second in disc above middle, and a third in disc at ⅔: cilia grey-whitish, with a spot of black scales at base round apex, and tips sprinkled with black. Hindwings and cilia pale whitish-grey. [3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [2] [6] Other than its type locality, this species has also been collected in Titirangi in February 2000. [7] [8]

Habitat

The type specimen was collected in heath-like scrub and swamp habitat. [4] It has also been collected in gumland and pakihi (a type of wetland). [7] [9]

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 "Elachista melanura Meyrick, 1889". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  3. 1 2 Meyrick, Edward (May 1889). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 21: 154–188 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. 1 2 3 Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera-annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 1–264. ISBN   0477025188. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-01-27. Retrieved 2018-05-16– via Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
  5. ↑ Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 320. OCLC   25449322.
  6. ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 458. ISBN   978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC   973607714. OL   25288394M. Wikidata   Q45922947.
  7. 1 2 "NZTCS Lepidoptera spreadsheet". www.doc.govt.nz. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  8. ↑ Environmental Impact Assessment of Aerial Spraying Btk in NZ for painted apple moth (Report). Ministry for Primary Industries. February 2003. Archived from the original on 2014-09-20. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "Pakihi". Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
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