Tingena griseata
Male lectotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. griseata
Binomial name
Tingena griseata
(Butler, 1877)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Oecophora griseata Butler, 1877
  • Borkhausenia griseata (Butler, 1877)

Tingena griseata is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in North Canterbury. The larvae of this species are leaf litter feeders.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877 using specimens collected by J.D. Enys and James Hector, and named Oecophora griseata.[3] George Hudson discussed this species under the name Borkhausenia griseata in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena.[2] The male lectotype specimen, collected either in Christchurch or Dunedin, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Butler described this species as follows:

Wings and body above shining grey ; primaries irrorated with brown, crossed by two widely separated indistinct oblique brown lines, the inner one angulated at the median nervure, the outer one, which is discal, deeply excavated in the middle ; a spot of the same colour at the end of the cell ; secondaries with a feeble brassy tinge : primaries below shining brown, fringe grey; secondaries sordid white, speckled with brown ; body below pale brown ; legs white internally. Expanse of wings 7 lines.[3]

Distribution

This species of moth is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in North Canterbury including on Rakaia Island.[1][5][6]

Hosts

The larvae of this species feed on leaf litter.[6]

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: 101. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 Arthur G. Butler (1877). "On two Collections of Heterocerous Lepidoptera from New Zealand, with descriptions of new Genera and Species". Journal of Zoology. 1877: 405. ISSN 1469-7998. Wikidata Q109479517.
  4. ↑ George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 268, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  5. ↑ "Te Pirita dryland river terrace, North Canterbury | Forest and Bird". www.forestandbird.org.nz. Retrieved 2021-12-27.
  6. 1 2 Patrick, Brian; Grove, Philip (June 2014). Indigenous insect fauna and vegetation of Rakaia Island. Christchurch: Canterbury Regional Council. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-927299-84-5. OCLC 910629091.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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