Tingena berenice

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

Tingena berenice is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in the North and South Islands. It is a brightly coloured species which is on the wing in November. Its preferred habitat is mixed beech forest.

Taxonomy[]

This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929 using specimens collected by George Hudson in November in Wellington and named Borkhausenia berenice.[3] In 1988 placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The female holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description[]

Illustration of T. berenice by George Hudson.

Meyrick described the adults of this species as follows:

♂. 15 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint irrorated dark grey except apex. Thorax grey-whitish, posteriorly tinged pale fulvous on margins. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; ochreous-whitish, becoming pale ochreous-yellowish posteriorly and towards dorsum anteriorly; a very oblique fascia of grey suffusion from base of costa to middle of dorsum; costal spots of grey irroration at 1⁄3 and 3⁄5; a subtriangular blackish blotch on dorsum about 3⁄4, surrounded by broad light fulvous irroration or suffusion extending to tornus and 3⁄4 across wing: cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings grey; cilia pale grey.[3]

This species is brightly coloured.[4]

Distribution[]

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] It was first collected by Hudson in and has also been found near the Homer Tunnel.[4][5]

Behaviour[]

Adults of this species are on the wing in November.[4]

Habitat[]

This species preferred habitat is mixed beech forest.[4]

References[]

  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" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 100. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b Edward Meyrick (30 November 1929). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 60: 488–489. ISSN 1176-6166. Wikidata Q104179283.
  4. ^ a b c d George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington, p. 444, Wikidata Q109420935
  5. ^ W George Howes (September 1946). "Lepidoptera Collecting at the Homer, with Descriptions of New Species". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 76: 139–147. ISSN 1176-6166. Wikidata Q62091906.
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