Tingena pallidula

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Tingena pallidula
Tingena pallidula holotype.png
Male holotype
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. pallidula
Binomial name
Tingena pallidula
(Philpott, 1924) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Borkhausenia pallidulaPhilpott, 1924

Tingena pallidula is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. [2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been collected in the Nelson and Tasman regions. Adults of this species are on the wing in February and have been collected by beating undergrowth.

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Taxonomy

This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1924 and named Borkhausenia pallidula using specimens collected at Gouland Downs on the Kahurangi National Park in February. [3] George Hudson discussed this species in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand under that name. [4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena. [2] The male holotype specimen is held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection. [2]

Description

Illustration by George Hudson. Fig 9 MA I437911 TePapa Plate-L-The-butterflies full (cropped).jpg
Illustration by George Hudson.

Philpott described this species as follows:

♂. 13–14 mm. Head pale whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish-ochreous, outwardly infuscated. Antennae whitish-ochreous, annulated with fuscous, ciliation in ♂ 1. Thorax white mixed with pale fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, basal segments white, anal tuft brighter ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, more or less infuscated. Forewings rather elongated, costa evenly arched, apex blunt-pointed, termen rounded, very oblique; white, irrorated with pale fuscous; many blackish-fuscous scales, tending to form an irregular spot in disc at ¾ and a series of terminal dots: cilia grey-whitish, fuscous-tinged apically, with a fuscous basal line. Hindwings grey-whitish, fuscous-tinged apically: cilia grey-whitish with an indistinct dark basal line. [3]

Distribution

Type locality of this species - Gouland Downs. Gouland Downs,- Heaphy Track.jpg
Type locality of this species - Gouland Downs.

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the Nelson and Taman districts. [3] [5] [1]

Behaviour

Adults of this species are on the wing in February and have been collected by beating undergrowth. [4] [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 4 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: 104. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN   0111-5383. Wikidata   Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Alfred Philpott (6 June 1924). "Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 55: 210. ISSN   1176-6158. Wikidata   Q104234951.
  4. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington, p. 271, LCCN   88133764, OCLC   25449322, Wikidata   Q58593286 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ "Tingena pallidula". Auckland Museum Online Collections. 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
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