Tingena terrena
Male holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. terrena
Binomial name
Tingena terrena
(Philpott, 1926)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Borkhausenia terrena Philpott, 1926

Tingena terrena is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Otago. The adults of this species are on the wing in December.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Alfred Philpott using specimens collected on the lower slopes of Ben Lomond in Queenstown in December.[3] Philpott originally named the species Borkhausenia terrena.[3] In that publication Philpott also studied and illustrated the genitalia of the male of this species.[3] George Hudson discussed this species in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand as a synonym of B. melanamma.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype specimen is held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[2]

Description

Philpott described this species as follows:

13–15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax greyish-brown. Antennae greyish-brown spotted with whitish. Abdomen brown, segmental divisions lead-coloured. Legs greyish-brown, posterior pair mixed with whitish. Forewings elongate, not posteriorly dilated, costa almost straight, sub-sinuate at middle, apex round-pointed, termen very oblique; greyish-brown, rather darker apically: fringes concolorous with wings. Hind-wings and fringes fuscous-brown.[3]

This species is very similar in appearance to T. melanamma but can be distinguished as it has no markings on its forewings and the contours of its forewings are also different.[3]

Distribution

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

Behaviour

Adults of this species are on the wing in December.[3][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 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 4 5 6 7 A. Philpott (1926). "New Zealand Lepidoptera: Notes and Descriptions". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 392. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63100760.
  4. ↑ George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 262, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  5. ↑ "Tingena terrena". Auckland Museum Collections Online. 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
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