Mnesictena adversa

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Mnesictena adversa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Mnesictena
Species:
M. adversa
Binomial name
Mnesictena adversa
(Philpott, 1917) [1]
Synonyms [1]
  • Mecyna adversaPhilpott, 1917

Mnesictena adversa is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Alfred Philpott in 1917 and is endemic to New Zealand.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1917 and named Mecyna adversa. [2] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale discussed this species under the name Mnesictena adversa. [1] In 2010 the publication The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity placed this species in the genus Udea and this placement has been followed by many New Zealand natural history institutions and collections. [3] However this placement has been brought into doubt by the work of Richard Mally and Matthias Nuss. [4]

Description

The wingspan is 20–21 mm for males and females. The forewings are ferruginous, but brighter along the costa. There is an irregular transverse outwardly-oblique white discal dot at the middle and a dark, obscurely indicated second line. The hindwings are yellow with the discal dot and terminal band fuscous. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 153. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 Alfred Philpott (1917). "Art. XIII. - Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 49: 243. ISSN   1176-6158. Wikidata   Q108312592.
  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. ↑ Mally, Richard; Nuss, Matthias (2011). "Molecular and morphological phylogeny of European Udea moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 69 (1): 55–71.
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