Tingena melinella
Male holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. melinella
Binomial name
Tingena melinella
Synonyms[2]
  • Oecophora melinella Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Borkhausenia melinella (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
  • Borkhausenia freta Philpott, 1926

Tingena melinella is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Nelson and Canterbury.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Felder & Rogenhofer in 1875 and named Oecophora melinella.[3] Felder & Rogenhofer used a specimen collected by T. R. Oxley in Nelson.[2] George Hudson did not mention this species in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[2] However he did discuss the subsequently synonymised species Borkhausenia freta.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena. In the same publication Dugdale synonymised Borkhausenia freta with T. melinella.[2] The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Illustration used in original description of species.
B. freta now known as T. melinella, illustrated by George Hudson.

Hudson, describing the species B. freta, since synonymised with T. melinella, as follows:

The expansion of the wings is slightly under 5⁄8 inch … has the head, anterior portions of thorax and extreme base of costa, blackish-brown; the fore-wings are also deeper yellow.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] It has been observed in Nelson and in Canterbury.[2][5][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 5 6 7 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: 103. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. ↑ Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Bernhard (1875). Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Vol. 2. Wien: Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei; in Commission bei K. Gerold's Sohn. pp. Taf. CXXXIX.
  4. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 264, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  5. ↑ Hooson, Scott (27 January 2015). "Christchurch District Plan. Site of Ecological Significance. Lake Forsyth North Side" (PDF). districtplan.ccc.govt.nz. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  6. ↑ Hamish J. H. Patrick; Mike H. Bowie; Barry W. Fox; Brian H. Patrick (2011). "The moths of Quail Island (Ōtamahua): a faunal comparison of an island under restoration with other sites on Banks Peninsula". New Zealand Natural Sciences. 36. doi:10.26021/583. ISSN 0113-7492. Wikidata Q97665452.
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