Eudonia xysmatias

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Eudonia xysmatias
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Female
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Male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Eudonia
Species:
E. xysmatias
Binomial name
Eudonia xysmatias
(Meyrick, 1907) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Scoparia xysmatiasMeyrick, 1907

Eudonia xysmatias is a moth in the family Crambidae. [3] It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed and collected in Otago. This species inhabits wetlands. Adults are day flying and are on the wing in December and January.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick and named Scoparia xysmatias. [4] In 1928 George Hudson described and illustrated this species under that name. [5] In 1988 John S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Eudonia. [2] The male holotype, collected by J. H. Lewis in the Old Man Range / Kopuwai in Central Otago, is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [2]

Description

Illustration by George Hudson. Fig 5 MA I437620 TePapa Plate-XXI-The-butterflies full (cropped).jpg
Illustration by George Hudson.

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂. 19 mm. Head dark fuscous. Palpi 1+1⁄2, dark fuscous, lower longitudinal half ochreous-whitish. Antennae very minutely pubescent. Thorax dark fuscous, sprinkled with ferruginous scales. Forewings elongate, gradually dilated, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate, rather oblique ; dark fuscous, irregularly strewn except on margins with yellowish-ferruginous scales, and partially suffused with black, especially about margins of first and second lines and towards dorsum anteriorly ; first and second lines represented by straight undefined series of whitish scales surrounded with yellowish-ferriiginous suffusion, strongly converging towards dorsum ; a small spot of white scales in middle of disc, followed by a black spot ; a well-marked black fascia beyond second line ; a few white scales indicating subterminal line : cilia ochreous-whitish, with dark-fuscous basal and grey median lines. Hindwings without hairs in cell ; dark grey sprinkled with blackish ; cilia ochreous-whitish, with dark-grey basal line. [4]

Distribution

Old Man Range, type locality. Two Thumbs Range, from the climb of Mt Winterslow, Winterslow Range, Canterbury, New Zealand 10.jpg
Old Man Range, type locality.

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [1] Along with , This species has been observed or collected in Otago at the type locality of Old Man Range as well as at Bold Peak at the head of Lake Wakatipu, in the Kakanui Mountains and at Happy Valley. [5] [6] [7]

Habitat

This moth inhabits various wetlands. [6]

Behaviour

E. xysmatias is a day flying moth. [6] Adults are on the wing in December and January. [6] [5]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 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: 158. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 Edward Meyrick (June 1907). "Notes and descriptions of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 39: 110. ISSN   1176-6158. Wikidata   Q110404133.
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