Tingena honorata
Male holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. honorata
Binomial name
Tingena honorata
(Philpott, 1918)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Borkhausenia honorata Philpott, 1918

Tingena honorata is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the South Island including in Fiordland, Southland and Otago. This species has inhabits damp openings in native forest. The adults of this species are on the wing in December and January and are attracted to light.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1918 using specimens collected in Invercargill and at Knife and Steel harbour in Southland and named Borkhausenia honorata.[3] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand also under the same name.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype specimen, collected at Knife and Steel harbour, is held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[2]

Description

Illustration of T. honorata by George Hudson.

Philpott described this species as follows:

♂. 12 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax dark bronzy-brown. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs fuscous, tarsi annulated with yellow. Fore-wings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, oblique, dark fuscous-brown ; a broad yellow stripe along dorsum, indented above before middle and tornus ; an irregular yellow blotch beneath costa at 1⁄3 and a similar one before 2⁄3, both sometimes absent ; a broad straight yellow fascia from costa at 4⁄5, parallel to termen, reaching 2⁄3 across wing : cilia fuscous. Hindwings and cilia dark fuscous.[3]

This species is similar in appearance to Tingena chrysogramma but difference in the placement of the yellow marking on the forewings.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Fiordland, Southland and Otago.[3][4][1]

Behaviour

This species is on the wing in December and January and is attracted to light.[3]

Habitat

This species has been collected at damp openings in native forest.[3][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: 102. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Alfred Philpott (1918). "Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute (in English and English). 50: 128. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q109591818.
  4. 1 2 3 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
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