Tingena aurata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. aurata
Binomial name
Tingena aurata
(Philpott, 1931)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Gymnobathra aurata Philpott, 1931

Tingena aurata is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand. The adults of the species are on the wing in November and December.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1931 using specimens collected by Charles Edwin Clarke at Opoho, Dunedin, in November and December and named Gymnobathra aurata.[3] In 1939 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his book A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand using the same name.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype specimen is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[2][5]

Description

Illustration of T. aurata by George Hudson.

Philpott described the species as follows:

♂ ♀. 10–12 mm. Head, palpi and thorax purplish brown mixed with grey. Antennae fuscous, pubescent. Abdomen grey. Legs fuscous, posterior pair whitish grey, tarsi very obscurely annulated with paler. Forewings with costa slightly arched, apex broadly rounded, termen oblique; fuscous grey; some dark fuscous suffusion beneath costa at base; a large blotch of yellow beneath fold at base; a dark fuscous fascia with some admixture of yellow above fold from costa at ¼, slightly curved and not quite reaching dorsum with its extremity resting on a fairly large dorsal patch of yellow; an outwardly oblique dark fuscous fascia mixed with yellow from costa at ½ coalescing above tornus with a similar but inwardly oblique fascia from costa at ¾; a very obscure terminal fascia of the same colours; fringes fuscous grey sprinkled with dark fuscous and white. Hindwings and fringes fuscous grey.[3]

Distribution

Opoho, type locality of T. aurata.

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Behaviour

This species is on the wing in November and December.[4]

References

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  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: 100. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 Alfred Philpott (1931). "Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 62: 32. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q109466059.
  4. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 447, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
  5. ↑ Arthur William Baden Powell (1941). "Biological Primary Types in the Auckland Museum". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 2: 239–259. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42905985. Wikidata Q58676616.
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