Mallobathra angusta

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Mallobathra angusta
Mallobathra angusta holotype.png
Holotype
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Psychidae
Genus: Mallobathra
Species:
M. angusta
Binomial name
Mallobathra angusta
Philpott, 1928 [1]

Mallobathra angusta is a moth of the family Psychidae. [1] [2] This species is endemic to New Zealand.

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Taxonomy

This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1928 using a male specimen collected at the Mount Arthur tableland track at 3000 ft. [3] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1939 book A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand. [4] The holotype is held at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. [2]

Description

Illustration of M. angusta by George Hudson Fig 4 MA I437922 TePapa Plate-LXI-A-supplement full (cropped).jpg
Illustration of M. angusta by George Hudson

Philpott described the adult of this species as follows:

♂. 20 mm. Head and palpi tawny. Antennae brown mixed with ochreous, ciliations in ♂ 2. Thorax and abdomen purplish-brown. Legs purplish-brown mixed with ochreous, tibiae and tarsi annulated with ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen strongly oblique; ochreous; strigulated throughout with dark purplish-fuscous; a blotch of purplish-fuscous on costa at middle and a similar one on dorsum beneath; fringes fuscous-grey. Hindwings dark fuscous; fringes fuscous-grey, paler apically. [3]

Distribution

Mount Arthur, type locality of M. angusta. Mount Arthur (New Zealand) 043.jpg
Mount Arthur, type locality of M. angusta.

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been collected at Mount Arthur. [1] [2]

Behaviour

Adults of this species are on the wing in November. [4]

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References

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  3. 1 2 Alfred Philpott (September 1928). "Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 59: 489–490. ISSN   1176-6158. Wikidata   Q68431664.
  4. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 469, OCLC   9742724, Wikidata   Q109420935