Heterocrossa iophaea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Carposinidae |
Genus: | Heterocrossa |
Species: | H. iophaea |
Binomial name | |
Heterocrossa iophaea | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Heterocrossa iophaea is a species of moth in the family Carposinidae. It is endemic to New Zealand.
This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1907 using material collected by Alfred Philpott in Invercargill. [3] [2] In 1922 Meyrick classified Heterocrossa as a synonym of the genus Carposina. [4] [5] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under the name Carposina iophaea in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. [6] In 1978 Elwood Zimmerman argued that the genus Heterocrassa should not be a synonym of Carposina as the genitalia of the species within the genus Heterocrassa are distinctive. [4] In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned the species back to the genus Heterocrossa. [2] He also synonymised Heterocrossa thalamota with Heterocrossa iophaea. [2] The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [2]
This species was described by Meyrick as follows:
♀. 18–19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous irrorated with whitish, face and palpi internally pale ochreous, palpi 4. Abdomen grey, two basal segments whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen almost straight, oblique; dark fuscous irrorated with whitish, sometimes more or less mixed with pale ochreous; a series of small dark spots along costa; tufts brownish-ochreous suffusedly edged with black and posteriorly margined with whitish, viz., two near base sometimes surrounded with ochreous suffusion, a transverse angulated series beyond 1⁄4, and five arranged round middle of disc, enclosed space sometimes blackish; a more or less defined angulated dark subterminal line: cilia rather dark fuscous irrorated with whitish. Hind-wings grey: cilia whitish-grey. [3]
This species is endemic to New Zealand. [1] [7] As well as the type locality of Invercargill, this species has also occurred in Wyndham, in the Peel Forest in Canterbury, [8] Waiho Gorge in Westland, [8] and Puhi Puhi in Marlborough. [8] Specimens have also been collected in the North Island in locations such as at Whakapapa, [6] Whangarei, [9] Hawkes Bay, [10] [11] Waimarino in the Bay of Plenty region [8] and Price's Bush in the Tararua Range. [8]
This species is on the wing between October and February. [3] The adult moths rest on the trunks of trees or alternatively hide among the twigs and leaves on the ground. [6] The manner in which the adult moth folds its wings assists it in finding hiding places. [6] The adult moths are attracted to light. [10] They have also been collected through the beating of bush. [9]
This species is found in native forest habitat. [3] [6] The larvae feed on the immature seeds of the mataī tree, Prumnopitys taxifolia . [12] As the seeds mature the larvae switch to eating the sugar-rich outer wall tissues of the seed before pupating. [12]
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