Tingena ombrodella
Male lectotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. ombrodella
Binomial name
Tingena ombrodella
(Hudson, 1950)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Borkhausenia innotella ombrodella Meyrick, 1950
  • Borkhausenia ombrodella (Meyrick, 1950)

Tingena ombrodella is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the North and South Islands. Adults of this species are on the wing from November to January and the larvae of the species are litter feeders. This species has been found to inhabit native beech forest.

Taxonomy

Image illustrated by George Hudson in 1928, said by Dugdale to represent T. ombrodella.

This species was first described and illustrated by George Hudson in 1950 as a variety of Borkhausenia innotella.[3] In 1926 Alfred Philpott discussed and illustrated the genitalia of the male of this species under the nameBorkhausenia innotella.[2] In 1928 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species also under this name in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena.[2] The male lectotype, collected at Whakapapa, Mount Ruapehu, is held at Te Papa.[2]

Description

Borkhausenia innotella ombrodella as illustrated by George Hudson in 1950.

Hudson described this species as follows:

a large, dark, local form of this variable insect which has been taken in some numbers at Waimarino and Whakapapa on the Central Plateau of the North Island.[3]

The larvae of this species was illustrated in a 1996 publication by J. S. Dugdale.[5]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the North Island including the species type locality of Whakapapa at Mount Ruapehu, in Redvale, Albany, in the Ōrongorongo Valley in Wellington, and at Coronet Peak.[1][5][6]

Behaviour

This species is on the wing in November to January and the larvae are litter feeders.[6][2][5][7][8]

Habitat

This species has been found to inhabit native beech forests.[5]

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 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: 104. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1950), Fragments of New Zealand entomology. - a popular account of all New Zealand cicadas. The natural history of the New Zealand glow-worm. A second supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand and notes on many other native insects., Wellington, p. 107, Wikidata Q107693053{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 269, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  5. 1 2 3 4 J. S. Dugdale (June 1996). "Natural history and identification of litter‐feeding Lepidoptera larvae (Insecta) in beech forests, Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand, with especial reference to the diet of mice(Mus musculus)". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 26 (2): 251–274. doi:10.1080/03014223.1996.9517513. ISSN 0303-6758. Wikidata Q56091899.
  6. 1 2 Alan Emmerson; Robert Hoare (28 October 2019). "Lepidoptera from Redvale, Albany, north of Auckland, New Zealand, 2004-2016: an annotated list". The Wētā. 53: 43–70. ISSN 0111-7696. Wikidata Q105342215.
  7. ↑ Graeme White (1991). "The Changing Abundance of Moths in a Tussock Grassland, 1962- 1989, and 50-Year to 70-Year Trends" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 15 (1): 5–22. ISSN 0110-6465. JSTOR 24054454. Wikidata Q107569572.
  8. ↑ Department of Conservation (January 2006). Crown Pastoral Land Tenure Review - Coronet Peak part 2 (PDF) (Report). Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
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