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Tingena tephrophanes

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Tingena tephrophanes
Female holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. tephrophanes
Binomial name
Tingena tephrophanes
(Meyrick, 1929)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Borkhausenia tephrophanes Meyrick, 1929

Tingena tephrophanes is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found at Mount Arthur. Adults of this species are on the wing in January.

Taxonomy

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This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929 using specimens collected by George Hudson in January in Flora Creek at Mount Arthur and named Borkhausenia tephrophanes.[3] In 1939 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under this same name.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The female holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

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Illustration of T. tephrophanes by George Hudson.

Meyrick first described this species as follows:

♀. 19 mm. Head, thorax grey. Palpi dark grey, slightly speckled white. Forewings rather elongate, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; glossy bluish-grey; extreme costal edge dark grey on basal ¼, then finely whitish to near apex; plical stigma rather elongate, blackish; a fine indistinct whitish inwards-oblique line from dorsum before tornus reaching half across wing, beyond this some obscure fuscous irroration crossing wing obliquely: cilia grey-whitish irrorated fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia grey, darker within a faint slender whitish subbasal line.[3]

Similar in appearance to Tingena nycteris but can be distinguished as T. tephrophranes is a shiny leaden grey colour and has a tornal suffusion.[4]

Distribution

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This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been found at Mount Arthur.[1]

Behaviour

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

Habitat

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This species inhabits subalpine native forests.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 105. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. ^ a b c Edward Meyrick (30 November 1929). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 60: 488. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q104179283.
  4. ^ a b c George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 444, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935