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

Tingena vestita is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been collected in Fiordland. The adults of this species are on the wing in January.

Taxonomy

This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1926 using specimens collected in the Hunter Mountains in January by S. Lindsay.[3] Philpott originally named the species Borkhausenia vestita.[3] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under the name B. vestita in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype specimen is held at the Canterbury Museum.[2]

Description

Illustration of T. vestita by George Hudson.

Philpott described this species as follows:

♂. 18 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous, fuscous beneath, except at base and apex of second segment. Antennae dark fuscous, ciliations in whorls at joints, 4. Thorax dark ochreous, shoulder bronzy-brown. Abdomen bronzy-fuscous, segmental divisions leaden-white. Legs ochreous, more or less infuscated, anterior pair dark brown above. Forewings elongate, costa strongly arched, apex broadly rounded, termen rounded, very oblique; bronzy-brown, more ochreous apically; a broad ochrcous-white stripe from base to tornus with a black spot resting on its lower edge at ½; a blackish spot above this in the dark costal area; a rather large black discal spot at ⅔: fringes dull-brownish. Hindwings dark fuscous: fringes fuscous with darker basal line.[3]

Hudson described this species as looking "stout".[4]

Distribution

Hunter Mountains, type locality of T. vestita.

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in Fiordland.[1]

Behaviour

The adults of this species is on the wing in January.[3]

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 A. Philpott (1926). "New Zealand Lepidoptera: Notes and Descriptions". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 392–393. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63100760.
  4. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 266, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
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