Tingena brachyacma

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Tingena brachyacma
Tingena brachyacma holotype.jpg
Male holotype
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. brachyacma
Binomial name
Tingena brachyacma
(Meyrick, 1909) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Borkhausenia brachyacmaMeyrick, 1909
  • Borkhausenia amnopisMeyrick, 1910

Tingena brachyacma is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. [2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in the south of the South Island. This species inhabits open swamps, native forest and scrubland and has been collected amongst Leptospermum . The adults of the species are on the wing in November and December.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1909 using a specimen collected by Alfred Philpott in October in Invercargill and named Borkhausenia brachyacma. [3] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand also under the name B. brachyacma. [4] In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned this species to the genus Tingena. [2] In the same publication Dugdale also synonymised Borkhausenia amnopis with this species. [2] The male holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [2]

Description

Illustration of T. brachyacma by George Hudson. Fig 23 MA I437628 TePapa Plate-XXIX-The-butterflies full (cropped).jpg
Illustration of T. brachyacma by George Hudson.

Meyrick described the species as follows:

♂. 18 mm. Head whitish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, second joint and a median band of terminal joint irrorated with dark fuscous, terminal joint unusually short, about half second. Antennae pale ochreous suffusedly ringed with dark fuscous, uniformly pubescent-ciliated. Thorax whitish-ochreous suffused with brownish and irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey, segments dorsally banded with golden-ferruginous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; ochreous-whitish, closely irrorated with brown ; a triangular brownish patch above dorsum towards base, limited posteriorly by a fine inwardly oblique blackish line terminating beneath in a conspicuous raised black dot above 2⁄5 of dorsum, preceded by some whitish suffusion ; discal stigmata large, round, brown, edged with a few black scales ; a small blackish spot on dorsum at 4⁄5, whence proceeds a sinuate line of scattered blackish scales near termen, angulated in middle and continued to costa at 4⁄5, where it is somewhat dilated and preceded by a spot of whitish suffusion ; a bar of brown suffusion from second discal stigma to tornus : cilia ochreous-whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous, at tornus with a grey bar preceded by whitish suffusion. Hind-wings light grey ; cilla ochreous-whitish suffused with pale greyish. [3]

This species is similar in appearance to T. innotella but can be distinguished by its large brown discal spot. [4] Also the terminal joint of its palpi is very short and its antennae are pubescent ciliated. [4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [1] Other than the type locality of Invercargill, this species has also been collected at Waipori River and at Woodhaugh in Dunedin. [5]

Behaviour

Adults of this species are on the wing in November and December. [4]

Habitat

This species is associated with Leptospermum and prefers the habitat of open swamps, native forests and scrubland. [4]

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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 4 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: 100. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 Edward Meyrick (1909), Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera, vol. 41, p. 13, Wikidata   Q110207561
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington, p. 269, LCCN   88133764, OCLC   25449322, Wikidata   Q58593286 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ "Tingena brachyacma". aucklandmuseum.com. 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
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