| Glaucocharis chrysochyta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Crambinae |
| Tribe: | Diptychophorini |
| Genus: | Glaucocharis |
| Species: | G. chrysochyta |
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| Glaucocharis chrysochyta | |
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Glaucocharis chrysochyta is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. [2] This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1882. It is endemic to New Zealand.
This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1882 and named Diptychophora chrysochyta. [3] Meyrick gave a fuller description of this species in 1883 and explained he based his description on two specimens collected in January amongst scrub. [4] The male lectotype, collected at the Auckland Domain by Meyrick, is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [5] The binomial of this species is occasionally misspelt as G. chrysoclyta. [6]
Meyrick described this species as follows:
Male. — 11+1⁄2— 12 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous. Palpi ochreous-yellow, with a dark fuscous' spot at base and apical half dark fuscous, internally whitish-ochreous. Antenna whitish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous-grey. Legs pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, very broad posteriorily, costa very gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin oblique, sinuations moderately deep ; light yellowish-ochreous, apex and hindmargin narrowly suffused with brownish, in one specimen basal half wholly suffused irregularly with brownish ; a well-defined double dark fuscous transverse line from costa near base to inner margin before middle, very strongly curved outwards, dentate inwardly a little above inner margin, enclosing a pale line becoming almost clear white on inner margin ; an oblique dark fuscous mark on costa beyond middle, giving rise to an indistinctly dentate suffused brown transverse line to middle of inner margin, which it hardly reaches ; this line bounds the brown suffusion in the darker specimen ; on it, rather above middle, is a small transverse 8-shaped spot, upper half leaden-metallic, lower half clear white ; a slender rather irregular dark fuscous transverse line from costa at 2⁄3 to inner margin at 3⁄4, upper two-thirds very strongly curved outwards, lower half nearly followed by a similar line, diverging a little on inner margin ; this line is preceded and followed on costa by a pale yellowish spot, and the space between it and the suffused median line is more distinctly yellow, especially below discal spot ; an oblique pale yellowish mark on costa before apex, terminating in a rather metallic white dot ; three slender longitudinal leaden-metallic streaks extending from discal spot to hindmargin, lowest one not reaching discal spot ; a leaden metallic line within the second double tranverse line from below middle almost to inner margin ; three small quadrate black spots on hindmargin near together below middle : cilia violet-metallic-grey, with a deeper basal line. Hindwings grey, with a dark fuscous hindmarginal line : cilia grey-whitish, with an indistinct darker line. [4]
G. chrysochyta is endemic to New Zealand. [1]
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