Tingena eumenopa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. eumenopa
Binomial name
Tingena eumenopa
(Meyrick, 1926)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Trachypepla eumenopa Meyrick, 1926
  • Trachypepla metallifera Philpott, 1928

Tingena eumenopa is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and found in the North and South Islands. The adults have been found amongst tree ferns and are on the wing in December.

Taxonomy

T. eumenopa was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1926 using specimens collected at Wainuiomata in December and originally named Trachypepla eumenopa.[3] George Hudson discussed this species under the name Trachypepla eumenopa in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] In 1939 Hudson synonymised Trachypepla metallifera with this species.[5] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena.[2] The male lectotype, collected at Wainuiomata, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Illustration of T. eumenopa by George Hudson.

This species was originally described by Meyrick as follows:

♂ ♀. 12 mm. Head pale ochreous, more or less irrorated fuscous. Palpi pale ochreous sprinkled blackish. Antennal ciliations in male 2. Thorax ferruginous-ochreous irrorated dark fuscous. Abdomen dark grey. Forewings elongate, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; violet-grey irrorated dark fuscous, disc more or less wholly suffused deep ferruginous-brown; some ochreous marking near base; stigmata forming raised tufts, plical beneath first discal, both these irrorated blackish, second discal forming an irregular white dot partially edged blackish irroration, some bright ochreous suffusion beneath this; two rather oblique irregular whitish striae crossing wing between discal stigmata, confluent and yellowish on costa, becoming obsolete towards dorsum; an indistinct yellowish spot on costa at ¾; an irregular whitish spot just before apex, and series of scattered scales before termen: cilia yellow-whitish with two broad shades, first yellow-brownish, second purplish, purplish blotches at apex and on costa towards apex. Hindwings and cilia blackish-grey.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] As well as the type locality of Wainuiomata this species has also been observed in Whangārei, Raurimu, Waimarino, Gouland Downs, Nelson, Dunedin, Eglinton Valley and at the Milford Track.[5]

Behaviour

The adults of this species are on the wing in December.[4]

Habitat

This species has been collected amongst tree ferns.[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: 101. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 E. Meyrick (1926). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 416. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110207234.
  4. 1 2 3 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 286, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  5. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 449, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
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