Tingena amiculata

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Tingena amiculata
Tingena amiculata holotype.png
Male holotype
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. amiculata
Binomial name
Tingena amiculata
(Philpott, 1926) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Borkhausenia amiculataPhilpott, 1926

Tingena amiculata is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. [2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the Nelson, Tasman and Canterbury regions. This species has been collected amongst Hebe species and shrubland at altitudes of up to 4500 ft. It is similar in appearance to its near relatives Tingena basella and Tingena laudata .

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1926 using specimens collected by Philpott at the Cobb Valley and the Mount Arthur tableland in December and named it Borkhausenia amiculata. [3] George Hudson discussed this species under the name B. amiculata in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand. [4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena. [2] The male holotype, collected at the Mount Arthur tableland, is held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. [5]

Description

Philpott described this species as follows:

♂. 16 ½–17 ½ mm. Head dark brown. Palpi dark brown mixed with yellow. Antennae dark brown annulated with yellow, ciliations in male 1. Thorax dark brown, tegulae and posterior margin tipped with yellow. Abdomen dark coppery-brown. Legs ochreous mixed with brown, tarsi annulated with ochreous. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex rather pointed, termen slightly rounded, oblique; dull greyish-ochreous tinged with ferruginous; costal edge at base brown for a short distance, thence yellowish to near apex; a stripe of pale yellow from base of dorsum to tornus, apically attenuated; a small ferruginous spot on upper margin of dorsal stripe at ½; a ferruginous discal spot; an indistinct deeply-excurved ferruginous subterminal line, sometimes obsolcte: fringes ochreous mixed with yellow points. Hindwings coppery-fuscous: fringes fuscous with darker basal line. [3]

This species is very similar in appearance to its near relative T. basella but differs as the apex of the forewing of T. amiculata is more pointed. [4] It might also be confused with the species T. laudata however the latter species is smaller with longer ciliations on its antennae and has differences in markings and colour. [6]

Distribution

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Mount Arthur

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [1] It has been collected in its type location Mount Arthur tableland, Cobb Valley and Arthur's Pass. [4]

Habitat and hosts

This species has been collected amongst Hebe species and shrubland at altitudes of up to 4500 ft. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 462. ISBN   978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC   973607714. OL   25288394M. Wikidata   Q45922947.
  2. 1 2 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: 99. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 3 Alfred Philpott (1926). "List of New Zealand species of Borkhausenia (Oecophoridae: Lepidoptera), including new species". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand . 56: 402. ISSN   1176-6166. Wikidata   Q110157185.
  4. 1 2 3 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington, p. 265, OCLC   25449322, Wikidata   Q58593286
  5. ↑ 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: 99. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  6. ↑ Alfred Philpott (1930). "New Species of Lepidoptera in the Collection of the Auckland Museum". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 1: 9. ISSN   0067-0464. JSTOR   42905932. Wikidata   Q58676529.
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