Platyptilia campsiptera

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Platyptilia campsiptera
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Illustration of female

Nationally Vulnerable (NZ TCS)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pterophoridae
Genus: Platyptilia
Species:
P. campsiptera
Binomial name
Platyptilia campsiptera

Platyptilia campsiptera is a species of moth in the family Pterophoridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species has been classified as Nationally Vulnerable by the Department of Conservation.

Taxonomy[]

P. campsiptera was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907[3] from a specimen collected by George Vernon Hudson in the Humboldt Range at approximately 1100m.[4] In 1928 Hudson also described and illustrated the species.[5]

Description[]

Meyrick described the species as follows:

♂︎ 17 mm. Head and thorax yellowish- white, metapleura with an oblique black streak, frontal cone of scales moderately long. Palpi 3+1⁄2, white, apical 2⁄3 externally irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale whitish-yellow, with a black lateral dot near base, and a few black lateral scales posteriorly. Legs white, banded with dark fuscous. Forewings cleft from 3⁄4, upper segment rather narrow, apex produced, pointed, lower segment much broader, posteriorly dilated ; whitish, tinged with pale yellow ; costa towards base shortly strigulated with fuscous irroration ; a small triangular fuscous spot irrorated with dark fuscous on costa before fissure, not reaching across first segment, and a smaller similar mark on costa between this and apex : cilia ochreous-whitish, spotted with fuscous round lower angle of first segment, and upper angle and termen of second, with a small black scale-tooth on dorsum at 2⁄3. Hindwings reddish-fuscous ; cilia whitish, slightly reddish-tinged, with a blackish basal mark on lower half of termen of first segment, and mere traces of black scales in middle of dorsum of third segment.[4]

Hudson noted that when resting P. campsiptera holds its forewing second digit downwards and almost at right angles to the first digit.[5]

Distribution[]

It is endemic to New Zealand.[2][6] As well as at its type locality, the species has been collected at Ben Lomond,[7] Andersons Bay[8] and Colac Bay.[9] It has also been collected at MacKinnon Pass.[10]

Conservation status[]

This species has the "Nationally Vulnerable" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Hoare, R.J.B.; Dugdale, J.S.; Edwards, E.D.; Gibbs, G.W.; Patrick, B.H.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Rolfe, J.R. (2017). "Conservation status of New Zealand butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), 2015" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 20: 7.
  2. ^ a b "Platyptilia campsiptera Meyrick, 1907". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  3. ^ Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 133. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b Meyrick, Edward (1907). "Notes and descriptions of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 39: 106–121. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 208.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12274". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12275". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  9. ^ "Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12276". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  10. ^ Hudson, G. V. (1939). A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn. p. 429. OCLC 9742724.
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