Trachypepla importuna
Male lectotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Trachypepla
Species:
T. importuna
Binomial name
Trachypepla importuna

Trachypepla importuna is a moth of the family Oecophoridae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is endemic to New Zealand. Adults have been collected in the North Island in January but the species is regarded as being poorly known.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1914 using specimens collected by George Hudson in January at Ohakune and Wellington.[2] Hudson discussed this species in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[3] The lectotype specimen, collected at Ohakune, is held at Natural History Museum, London.[4]

Description

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂♀. 16-18 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey. Palpi ochreous whitish tinged with grey except towards apex of joints. Antennal ciliations of ♂ 1+1⁄2. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow towards base, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; pale fuscous, somewhat mixed with whitish ; a triangular fuscous patch extending over basal 2⁄5 of costa and reaching to below fold, edged posteriorly by an inwardly oblique series of three suffused subconfluent dark-fuscous spots, two lower tufted ; stigmata small, dark fuscous, plical beneath first discal ; second discal connected with tornus by a streak of fuscous suffusion, mixed with dark fuscous, preceded on upper part by some raised white scales ; spots of fuscous suffusion on costa beyond middle and at 3⁄4; from second of these an indistinct angulated fuscous line runs to tornus ; a series of cloudy dark - fuscous dots round posterior part of costa and termen : cilia pale fuscous. Hindwings whitish-fuscous ; cilia fuscous- whitish.[2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1][5] In Wellington it is regarded as being local and uncommon.[6]

Behaviour

Adults of this species are on the wing in January.[4] It is regarded as being poorly known.[6]

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 Edward Meyrick (1914). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 46: 108. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q98606535.
  3. ↑ George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  4. 1 2 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: 106. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  5. ↑ "Trachypepla importuna Meyrick, 1914". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  6. 1 2 Brian H. Patrick (1994), Coastal butterflies and moths of Wellington and South Wairarapa. (PDF), Wikidata Q110426707, archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2021
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