Tingena vestita
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Tingena |
| Species: | T. vestita
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| Binomial name | |
| Tingena vestita | |
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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
[edit]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
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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
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This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in Fiordland.[1]
Behaviour
[edit]The adults of this species is on the wing in January.[3]
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ a b 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