Tingena levicula
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Tingena |
| Species: | T. levicula |
| Binomial name | |
| Tingena levicula | |
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Tingena levicula is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
[edit]This species was first described by Alfred Philpott using specimens collected by Charles Edwin Clarke at Flat Mountain near Lake Manapouri at an altitude of about 4,000 ft in December.[3] Philpott named Borkhausenia levicula.[3] In 1939 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under the name B. levicula.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype specimen, collected at Flat Top Mountain, is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[2][5]
Description
[edit]Philpott described this species as follows:
♂ . 13 mm. Head, palpi and thorax whitish ochreous mixed with brown. Antennae ochreous closely annulated with fuscous, ciliations in ♂3⁄4. Abdomen grey, brassy tinged. Legs grey mixed with ochreous and brown. Forewings narrow, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen extremely oblique; greyish white mixed with dark fuscous; markings pale ochreous mixed with dark fuscous; a rather broad fascia from costa at base to dorsum at about 1⁄3; a similar fascia from costa at 1⁄4 to dorsum at 2⁄3; a third fascia from costa at 1⁄2 to above tornus where it coalesces with an inwardly oblique fascia from costa at 4⁄5 ; a moderately broad band round termen: fringes greyish white mixed with ochreous and fuscous. Hindwings grey: fringes grey with obscure darker basal line.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Fiordland.[1][6]
Behaviour
[edit]The adults of this species are on the wing in December.[4]
References
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- 1 2 Gordon, Dennis Preston, ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. LCCN 2011379669. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- 1 2 3 4 Dugdale, John Stewart (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 103. doi:10.7931/j2/fnz.14. Wikidata Q45083134.
- 1 2 3 Philpott, Alfred (1930). "New Species of Lepidoptera in the Collection of the Auckland Museum". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 1: 8. JSTOR 42905932. Wikidata Q58676529.
- 1 2 Hudson, George Vernon (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 442, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
- ↑ "Borkhausenia levicula". Auckland Museum Collections Online. 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ↑ Clarke, Charles Edwin (1933). "The Lepidoptera of the Te Anau-Manapouri Lakes Districts". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 63 (2): 112–132. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q62934927.