Scythris triatma

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Scythris triatma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Scythrididae
Genus: Scythris
Species:
S. triatma
Binomial name
Scythris triatma
Meyrick, 1935

Scythris triatma is a species of moth in the family Scythrididae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1935. [1] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been recorded in the South Island. Adults are day flying and are on the wing in November. The species have been recorded at saline wetlands and sites with saline soils.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1935 using two specimens collected by George Hudson at the Puhi Puhi River in Kaikōura in November. [2] The specimens had been collected on stones on the riverbed. [2] The male lectotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [3]

Description

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Image of S. triatma.

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂. 10 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark bluish-slaty-grey. Abdomen grey, ventral surface suffused pale ochreous, anal tuft pale greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate-lanceolate; dark bluish-slaty-grey; stigmata indicated by hardly perceptible cloudy darker spots only visible in certain lights, plical and first discal transversely placed beyond middle, second discal at ¾; obscure spots of grey-whitish suffusion beneath fold at 1/3 and 2/3 and towards apex: cilia grey. Hindwings grey, paler towards base; cilia grey. [2]

Distribution

S. triatma is endemic to New Zealand. [4] It has been collected in its type locality in Kaikōura and in Otago.

Behaviour

The adults of this species are day flying and are on the wing in November. [5] [2] This species is not attracted to light. [6]

Habitat

This species has been found at sites with saline soils as well as at saline wetlands in Otago. [7] [8]

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References

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  3. ↑ John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 110. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  4. ↑ "Scythris triatma Meyrick, 1935". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  5. ↑ B. H. Patrick (January 1992). "Supplement to the Lepidoptera of the Mackenzie Country with recommendations on their conservation" (PDF). New Zealand Entomologist. 15 (1): 48–58. doi:10.1080/00779962.1992.9722629. ISSN   0077-9962. Wikidata   Q57483707. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2013.
  6. ↑ Brian Patrick (1 December 2014). "Conservation status of five data deficient moth taxa: Epichorista lindsayi, "Cnephasia" paterna, Stathmopoda endotherma, Gymnobathra ambigua and Scythris "stripe"". The Wētā. 48: 15–34. ISSN   0111-7696. Wikidata   Q105343576.
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