Tingena homodoxa

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Tingena homodoxa
Tingena homodoxa lectotype.jpg
Male lectotype
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. homodoxa
Binomial name
Tingena homodoxa
(Meyrick, 1883)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Oecophora homodoxa Meyrick, 1883
  • Borkhausenia homodoxa (Meyrick, 1883)

Tingena homodoxa is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the southern parts of the South Island. It inhabits open grassy slopes and is on the wing from November until January.

Taxonomy[]

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1883 using specimens he collected near Lake Wakatipu in December.[3] He originally named the species Oecophora homodoxa.[3] Meyrick went on to give a fuller description of the species in 1884.[4] In 1915 Meyrick placed this species within the Borkhausenia genus.[5] In 1926 Alfred Philpott studied the genitalia of the male of this species.[6] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under the name B. homodoxa in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[7] In 1988 placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male lectotype, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description[]

Illustration of T. homodoxa by George Hudson.

Meyrick originally described this species as follows:

Fore wings whitish-grey, closely irrorated with darker, a mark on fold and another on anal angle hardly darker ; hind wings grey.[3]

Meyrick in 1884 described this species as follows:

Male, female. — 15+1⁄2-17+1⁄2- mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs light grey finely irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex pointed, hindmargin very oblique, hardly rounded ; pale whitish-grey, very finely and closely irrorated with dark fuscous-grey ; indications of an inwardly oblique dark fuscous mark beneath fold about 1⁄3, and a perpendicular mark on anal angle, both almost obsolete : cilia grey-whitish, with several rows of dark fuscous-grey points. Hindwings grey, in female rather darker ; cilia light grey, with a cloudy darker basal line.[4]

Distribution[]

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been found on the lower slopes of Mount Aurum near Lake Wakatipu as well as at Ben Lomond.[1][7]

Behaviour[]

The adults of this species are on the wing from November until January.[7]

Habitat[]

This species inhabits open grassy slopes at altitudes of around 3000 ft.[7]

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: 102. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b c Edward Meyrick (September 1883). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera.—III.—Oecophoridae". New Zealand Journal of Science. 1: 525. Wikidata Q106368126.
  4. ^ a b Edward Meyrick (1884). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. III. Oecophoridae". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 16: 43. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63976486.
  5. ^ E. Meyrick (12 July 1915). "Revision of New Zealand Tineina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 213. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63123349.
  6. ^ Alfred Philpott (1926). "List of New Zealand species of Borkhausenia (Oecophoridae: Lepidoptera), including new species". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 56: 399–413. ISSN 1176-6166. Wikidata Q110157185.
  7. ^ a b c d George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington, p. 268, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
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