Tingena xanthomicta

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Tingena xanthomicta
Tingena xanthomicta lectotype.jpg
Female lectotype
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. xanthomicta
Binomial name
Tingena xanthomicta
(Meyrick, 1916) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Borkhausenia xanthomictaMeyrick, 1916

Tingena xanthomicta is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. [2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in both the North and South Islands. This species inhabits native scrub on hillsides and appears to be attracted to Coprosma areolata . Adults are on the wing from November until February.

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Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1916 using a specimen collected in Wellington in November by George Hudson and named Borkhausenia xanthomicta. [3] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under the name B. xanthomicta in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand. [4] Philpott discussed this species under the name B. xanthomicta and studied the male genitalia of this species. [5] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena. [2] Dugdale noted that the male paralectotype from Wellington has genitalia very similar to that of the male T. affinis as illustrated by Philpott in 1926. [5] [2] Dugdale goes on to state that the male paralectotype genitalia agrees with the illustrations of that species figured by Philpott in 1926. [5] [2] The female lectotype, collected in Wellington, is held in at the Natural History Museum, London. [2]

Description

T. xanthomicta as illustrated by George Hudson. Fig 8 MA I437628 TePapa Plate-XXIX-The-butterflies full (cropped).jpg
T. xanthomicta as illustrated by George Hudson.

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂♀ 13–16 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. Antennal ciliations of ♂ 1. Forewings elongate, widest before middle, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded; dark fuscous, sometimes obscurely whitish-sprinkled; markings light yellow-ochreous, more or less tinged with ferruginous in disc; a thick oblique streak from near base m middle to above dorsum at 2⁄5; oblique narrow more or less incomplete fasciae before and beyond middle, usually not reaching costa; an inwardly oblique transverse spot from costa at 4⁄5: cilia yellowish, becoming ferruginous-yellow towards base, on costa, and tornus fuscous mixed with ferruginous-yellow towards base. Hindwings dark grev: cilia grey, basal third darker. [3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. [1] It has been observed in the Wellington region, at Queenstown, at Lake Wakatipu and in Invercargill. [4]

Behaviour

Adults of this species are on the wing in November to February. [4] [6] [7]

Habitat

This species inhabits native scrub on hillsides and appears to be attracted to Coprosma areolata . [4]

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References

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