Mnesictena pantheropa

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Mnesictena pantheropa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Mnesictena
Species:
M. pantheropa
Binomial name
Mnesictena pantheropa
(Meyrick, 1884) [1]
Synonyms
  • Mecyna pantheropaMeyrick, 1884
  • Udea pantheropa(Meyrick, 1884)

Mnesictena pantheropa is a moth in the family Crambidae. [1] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1884. It is endemic to New Zealand, [2] where it has been recorded from the Chatham Islands. [3] [4]

The wingspan is 25–26 mm. The forewings are orange, variably mixed with reddish-fuscous or dark fuscous, especially on the veins and some specimens are wholly suffused with fuscous. The extreme costal edge is sometimes whitish in the middle. The markings are reddish-brown, mixed or suffused with dark grey and there is a suffusion along the basal part of the costa, sometimes extending basally to the dorsum. The first line is irregularly curved and the second denticulate, forming a strong subquadrate loop inwards below the middle, the space between them wholly suffused with dark except along the costa and on a band preceding the upper half of the second line. Sometimes, there is a sharply defined irregular transverse or rhomboidal clear white discal spot at the middle. There is a moderate terminal fascia, suffusedly projecting inwards opposite the loop of the second line. The hindwings are whitish-yellowish, becoming whitish towards the costa. The dorsal area is suffused with grey and there are two dark grey discal dots very obliquely placed. Sometimes, there is a grey postmedian line. The terminal fascia is suffused dark grey, sometimes very narrow or obsolete except at the apex and there is a terminal series of dark grey dots. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Mnesictena pantheropa (Meyrick, 1902)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  2. ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume two. Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 458. ISBN   9781877257933. OCLC   973607714.
  3. ↑ Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 153. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  5. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1902-11-01). "XV. Lepidoptera from the Chatham Islands". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 50 (3): 273–280. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1902.tb02389.x. ISSN   1365-2311 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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