Pyrgotis transfixa

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Pyrgotis transfixa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Pyrgotis
Species:
P. transfixa
Binomial name
Pyrgotis transfixa
(Meyrick, 1924) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Catamacta transfixaMeyrick, 1924

Pyrgotis transfixa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "At Risk, Naturally Uncommon" by the Department of Conservation.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick from a specimen collected by George Hudson at Gollan's Valley, Wellington in December. [2] [3] Meyrick named the species Catamacta transfixa. [3] George Hudson described and illustrated this species under that name in his 1928 book The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. [4] In 1971 John S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Pyrgotis. [5] The holotype specimen of this species is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [6]

Description

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂︎. 15 mm. Head and thorax dark purplish-fuscous mixed with dark red-brown. Palpi dark fuscous. Antennal ciliations 1. Forewings suboblong, costa anteriorly gently arched, with rather broad fold from base to beyond 1⁄3, termen sinuate, oblique ; ferruginous-brown suffusedly reticulated with glistening greyish-violet; a narrow suffused ochreous-whitish median streak from base to termen, similar streaks on veins 6 and 7, on vein 3, and space between this and tornus suffusedly irrorated ochreous-whitish : cilia ferruginous-brown mixed whitish, tips whitish, at apex a violet-grey bar. Hindwings pale grey, very faintly ; mottled ; cilia whitish. [3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [1] [7] This species is only known from Wellington. [6] Specimens have been obtained in the Ōrongorongo Valley. [6]

Biology and life cycle

Very little is known of the biology of this species. [6] The adult moths are on the wing in December. [4] They are attracted to light. [6]

Host species and habitat

This species prefers forest habitat. [4] The host species and larvae of this moth are at present unknown. [6]

Conservation status

This species has been classified as having the "At Risk, Naturally Uncommon" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pyrgotis transfixa (Meyrick, 1924)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  2. 1 2 Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 127. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-22. Retrieved 2018-05-25– via Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
  3. 1 2 3 Meyrick, E. (1924). "Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 55: 202–206. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 221.
  5. ↑ Dugdale, J. S. (1971). "Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of New Zealand: Lepidoptera, excluding non-crambine Pyralidae". Pacific Insects Monograph. 27: 55–172.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Patrick, B.H.; Dugdale, J.S. (2000). Conservation status of the New Zealand lepidoptera (PDF). Wellington, N.Z.: Dept. of Conservation. p. 31. ISBN   978-047821867-1 . Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 465. ISBN   978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC   973607714. OL   25288394M. Wikidata   Q45922947.
  8. ↑ Hoare, R.J.B.; Dugdale, J.S.; Edwards, E.D.; Gibbs, G.W.; Patrick, B.H.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Rolfe, J.R. (2017). "Conservation status of New Zealand butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), 2015" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 20: 8.

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