Tingena chrysogramma
Female holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. chrysogramma
Binomial name
Tingena chrysogramma
(Meyrick, 1883)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Oecophora chrysogramma Meyrick, 1883
  • Borkhausenia chrysogramma (Meyrick, 1883)

Tingena chrysogramma is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the North and South Islands. The adults of this species inhabits open scrubland and are on the wing in January and February. It has been collected via light traps and beating shrubs. During sunny days this species has been observed resting on leaves and rarely flies. It is regarded as a rare species and has a possible association with Prumnopitys ferruginea.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1883 using a female specimen he collected in Wellington in December at rest on a fence post.[3][4] He originally named the species Oecophora chrysogramma.[3] Meyrick gave a more detailed description under this name in 1884.[4] In 1915 Meyrick placed this species within the Borkhausenia genus.[5] In 1926 Alfred Philpott studied the genitalia of the male of this species.[6] George Hudson discussed this species under the name B. chrysogramma in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[7] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The female holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Illustration of T. chrysogramma by George Hudson.

Meyrick first described this species as follows:

Fore wings narrow, deep yellow, base, two oblique fasciae, a costal spot, and hind marginal streak dark purple-fuscous ; hind wings dark fuscous.[3]

Meyrick then went on to give a more detailed description as follows:

Female. — 12+1⁄2 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark purplish-fuscous, apex of tarsal joints ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; deep golden-yellow ; extreme base dark fuscous ; anterior half of costal edge dark fuscous ; markings dark purple-grey, edged with blackish-fuscous ; a rather broad slightly curved oblique transverse fascia from 1⁄4 of costa to 1⁄3 of inner margin, and a second from middle of costa to 2⁄3 of inner margin ; a transverse somewhat narrower perpendicular spot from costa at 3⁄4, reaching more than half across wing, narrowed beneath, almost touching second fascia ; a streak along hindmargin : cilia dark purple-grey. Hind-wings and cilia dark fuscous.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] Other than its type locality of Wellington, this species has also been observed at Waimarino and at Ohakune.[7][8] Hudson states that a duller form of this species can be found in the South Island.[7]

Behaviour

Prumnopitys ferruginea, also known as miro.

This species is on the wing in January and February and is attracted to light.[7][8] Hudson also collected this species by beating shrubs.[7] During sunny days this species rests on leaves and is rarely observed flying.[7] It is regarded as a rare species and has a possible association with Prumnopitys ferruginea.[7]

Habitat

This species inhabits open scrubland.[7]

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 3 Edward Meyrick (September 1883). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera.—III.—Oecophoridae". New Zealand Journal of Science. 1: 525. Wikidata Q106368126.
  4. 1 2 3 Edward Meyrick (1884). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. III. Oecophoridae". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 16: 44–45. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63976486.
  5. ↑ E. Meyrick (12 July 1915). "Revision of New Zealand Tineina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 213. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63123349.
  6. ↑ Alfred Philpott (1926). "List of New Zealand species of Borkhausenia (Oecophoridae: Lepidoptera), including new species". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 399–413. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110157185.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 261, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  8. 1 2 D. E. Gaskin (January 1970). "NEW RECORDS OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM MT. EGMONT AND MT. RUAPEHU, NEW ZEALAND". New Zealand Entomologist. 4 (3): 112–114. doi:10.1080/00779962.1970.9722933. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q105726524.
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