Tingena sinuosa
Male holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. sinuosa
Binomial name
Tingena sinuosa
(Philpott, 1928)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Borkhausenia sinuosa Philpott, 1928

Tingena sinuosa is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Wellington and at Tongariro. Adults of this species are on the wing in December.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1928 using specimens collected at Wellington Botanic Garden and named Borkhausenia sinuosa.[3] In 1939 George Hudson discussed this species under the name B. sinuosa.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype is held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[2]

Description

Philpott described this species as follows:

♂. 17–19 mm. Head and thorax clear yellow. Palpi yellow, second segment mixed with fuscous without. Antennae greyish-fuscous, ciliations in ♂ ½. Abdomen greyish-white, and tuft ochreous. Legs ochreous-white, anterior pair strongly infuscated. Forewings clongate, costa well arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded; clear yellow; costa at base narrowly edged with brown; fringes concolorous with wing. Hindwings and fringes whitish-grey. [3]

Philpott stated that this species is extremely similar to T. enodis but that it can be distinguished as there are differences in the male genitalia of the two species.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Wellington and at Tongariro.[1][4][5]

Behaviour

The adults of this species are on the wing in December.[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: 105. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 3 Alfred Philpott (September 1928). "Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 59: 488. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q68431664.
  4. 1 2 3 George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 443, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
  5. ↑ "Tingena sinuosa". Auckland Museum Online Collections. 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
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