Mallobathra angusta
Mallobathra angusta | |
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Holotype | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Psychidae |
Genus: | Mallobathra |
Species: | M. angusta
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Binomial name | |
Mallobathra angusta |
Mallobathra angusta is a moth of the family Psychidae.[1][2] This species is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy[]
This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1928 using a male specimen collected at the Mount Arthur tableland track at 3000 ft.[3] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1939 book A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] The holotype is held at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[2]
Description[]
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Philpott described the adult of this species as follows:
♂. 20 mm. Head and palpi tawny. Antennae brown mixed with ochreous, ciliations in ♂ 2. Thorax and abdomen purplish-brown. Legs purplish-brown mixed with ochreous, tibiae and tarsi annulated with ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen strongly oblique; ochreous; strigulated throughout with dark purplish-fuscous; a blotch of purplish-fuscous on costa at middle and a similar one on dorsum beneath; fringes fuscous-grey. Hindwings dark fuscous; fringes fuscous-grey, paler apically.[3]
Distribution[]
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This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been collected at Mount Arthur.[1][2]
Behaviour[]
Adults of this species are on the wing in November.[4]
References[]
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- ^ a b c Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 463. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ a b c John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 69. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021.
- ^ a b Alfred Philpott (1928). "Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 59: 489–490. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q68431664.
- ^ a b George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington, p. 469, Wikidata Q109420935
- Moths described in 1928
- Moths of New Zealand
- Psychidae
- Endemic fauna of New Zealand
- Taxa named by Alfred Philpott