| Glaucocharis pyrsophanes | |
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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. pyrsophanes |
| Binomial name | |
| Glaucocharis pyrsophanes | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Glaucocharis pyrsophanes is a moth in the family Crambidae. [2] It was 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 pyrsophanes. [3] Meyrick gave a fuller description of this species in 1883. [4] The female lectotype, collected at the Wellington Botanic Garden by Meyrick, is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [5]
Meyrick described this species as follows:
Male, female. — 13+1⁄2-16 mm. Head ochreous or brownish - ochreous. Palpi light yellowish-ochreous, externally more brownish. Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax rather dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen dark purplish-fuscous, with a light yellowish ring near base. Legs clear whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, very broad posteriorly, costa very gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin oblique, indentations moderately deep ; ochreous-brown, almost wholly suffused with dark purplish-fuscous except narrowly along hindmargin and more broadly at apex and anal angle, and finely irrorated with grey, especially towards costa and disc beyond middle ; a very small triangular yellow spot on inner margin at 1⁄4 ; an equally small rather subquadrate yellow spot on inner margin at 3⁄4 , with a pale yellow dot rather above and beyond its apex ; a very faintly perceptible darker transverse line from costa at 1⁄4 to first dorsal spot, sharply angulated outwards beneath costa ; a suffused darker spot in disc above and beyond middle ; a small outwardly oblique triangular pale yellow spot on costa at 3⁄4 , sometimes closely preceded by a faint oblique yellowish costal mark ; a very small suffused pale yellowish spot on costa before apex ; a dark fuscous dot in apex, preceded by a clear white dot; sometimes a white dot on hind margin in upper indentation ; a slender dark fuscous hindmarginal line : cilia whitish ochreous, with a dark grey line near base, on indentations wholly clear white, a dark grey spot at apex, another between indentations, a third above anal angle, a fourth on anal angle. Hindwings fuscous-grey, with a very indistinct darker line posteriorly ; a dark fuscous hindmarginalline ; cilia grey- whitish, with a grey line near base. [4]
This species is endemic to New Zealand. [1]
Adults of this moth are known to pollinate Leptospermum scoparium and Helichrysum selago . [6]
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