Heterocrossa cryodana

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Heterocrossa cryodana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Carposinidae
Genus:
Heterocrossa
Species:
H. cryodana
Binomial name
Heterocrossa cryodana
Meyrick, 1885
Synonyms
  • Carposina cryodana (Meyrick, 1885)

Heterocrossa cryodana is a species of moth in the family Carposinidae. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy[]

This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 using material collected in Dunedin and named Heterocrossa cryodana.[1][2] In 1922 Meyrick listed Heterocrossa as a synonym for Carposina.[3][4] George Hudson, in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand, discusses this species under the name Carposina cryodana.[5] Alfred Philpott studied the male genitalia of this species in 1928.[6] In 1978 Elwood Zimmerman argued that the genus Heterocrassa should not be a synonym of Carposina as the genitalia of the species within the genus Heterocrassa are distinctive.[3] In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned the species back to the genus Heterocrossa.[7] The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[7]

Description[]

This species was described by Meyrick as follows:

Male, female. — 16-17 mm. Head and thorax white, slightly speckled with grey. Palpi in male moderate, in female long; lower half dark fuscous, upper half white. Antennae whitish. Abdomen and legs ochreous-whitish, anterior and middle pair dark fuscous except apex of joints. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, tolerably oblong, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin straight, very oblique; white, densely irrorated with pale fuscous-grey; a short black streak from base beneath costa; tufts preceded by a few black scales; sometimes a thick irregular blackish longitudinal streak in disc, extending from 1⁄4—2⁄3; cilia white, densely irrorated with pale grey. Hindwings grey-whitish; cilia whitish.[2]

Distribution[]

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[8][9] It has been collected in Dunedin and Invercargill and Codfish Island.[5][10]

Biology and behaviour[]

This species is on the wing in September and November.[5] It is associated with Leptospermum species.[5] Larvae of the species have been found on fruits.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ Meyrick, Edward (1885). "Tortricina (supplementary). Additions to former paper. Abstract". New Zealand Journal of Science (Dunedin). 2: 348–349 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. ^ a b Meyrick, Edward (1885). "On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 17 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. ^ a b Zimmerman, Elwood (1978). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 9. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. p. 797. hdl:10125/7338. ISBN 9780824804879.
  4. ^ Meyrick, Edward (1922). "Lepidoptera Heterocera Fam. Carposinidiae". Genera Insectorum. fasc.176–180: 1–235 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. ^ a b c d Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 217. OCLC 25449322.
  6. ^ Philpott, Alfred (1928). "The male genitalia of the New Zealand Carposinidae" (PDF). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 59: 476–480.
  7. ^ a b Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera – annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 1–269. ISBN 0477025188. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  8. ^ "Heterocrossa cryodana Meyrick, 1885". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  9. ^ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 457. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  10. ^ a b Patrick, B. H. (1997). "Codfish Island moths". The Weta. 20: 17–20. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.728.6325.

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