Sagephora exsanguis

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Sagephora exsanguis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Sagephora
Species:
S. exsanguis
Binomial name
Sagephora exsanguis
Philpott, 1918 [1]

Sagephora exsanguis is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. [2] [1] It was described by Alfred Philpott in 1918. This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been found on Cuvier Island, as well as the North and South Islands. The adults of this species are on the wing from October to December.

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Taxonomy

Male holotype specimen of S. exsanguis. Sagephora exsanguis TYPELEP019200.png
Male holotype specimen of S. exsanguis.

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1918, using specimens collected in Bluff and Dunedin in October, November and December, and named Sagephora exsanguis. [3] In 1928 George Hudson described and illustrated this species in his publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand. [4] The male holotype specimen, collected in Bluff, is held at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. [5] [6]

Description

Illustration of S. exsanguis by George Hudson. Fig 18 MA I437901 TePapa Plate-XL-The-butterflies full (cropped).jpg
Illustration of S. exsanguis by George Hudson.

Philpott described this species as follows:

♂. 10-12 mm. Head white, face ochreous. Palpi white, apical half of second joint brown. Antennae, thorax, and abdomen white. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen rounded, extremely oblique ; white ; costa and dorsum broadly pale-brownish throughout reducing ground-colour to a median stripe ; apical half of dorsal stripe irregularly margined above with blackish ; a few dark scales on costa near apex : cilia concolorous with wing - markings. Hindwings and cilia shining white. [3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been collected on the South, North and Cuvier Islands. [2] [6]

Habitat

This species inhabits native forest as well as wetlands. [4] [7]

Behaviour

The adults of this species are on the wing from October until December. [4]

Hosts

This species is associated with Carex species found in wetlands. [7]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 464. ISBN   978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC   973607714. OL   25288394M. Wikidata   Q45922947.
  3. 1 2 Alfred Philpott (1918). "Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute (in English and English). 50: 131. ISSN   1176-6158. Wikidata   Q110875537.
  4. 1 2 3 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington, p. 342, OCLC   25449322, Wikidata   Q58593286
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