Mnesictena flavidalis
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Spilomelinae |
| Tribe: | Udeini |
| Genus: | Mnesictena |
| Species: | M. flavidalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Mnesictena flavidalis (Doubleday, 1843) | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Mnesictena flavidalis is a moth in the family Crambidae.[3][4] It was described by Edward Doubleday in 1843.[5] It is endemic to New Zealand.[6]
Taxonomy
[edit]This species was first described by Edward Doubleday in Ernst Dieffenbach's book Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of the country and named Margaritia flavidalis.[5] In 1899 Hampson placed this species in the genus Mnesictena.[7] In 1983 G. E. Munroe synonymised the genus Mnesictena with Udea.[8] However, in 1988 John S. Dugdale treated Mnesictena as a valid genus.[2] Dugdale's treatment was followed in 2011 by Richard Mally and Matthias Nuss.[1] The male holotype specimen, collected in Auckland by A. Sinclair, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]
Description
[edit]Doubleday described this species as follows:
All the wings ochraceous, the outer margins with a series of minute dots. Anterior wings with a faint striga near the base, a still fainter one near the middle, and a more distinct much-waved one near the outer margin, and two discoidal stigmatiform spots fuscous. Posterior wings with a discoidal spot, preceded towards the anterior margin by a smaller one, a transverse striga beyond the middle, and the anal angle fuscous.[5]
Behaviour
[edit]Adults are attracted to light and have been collected via a mercury vapour light trap.[9]
References
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- 1 2 Richard Mally; Matthias Nuss (2011). "Molecular and morphological phylogeny of European Udea moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 69 (1): 55–71. ISSN 1863-7221. Wikidata Q113549443.
- 1 2 3 Dugdale , J. S. (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 153. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume two. Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 458. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
- ↑ Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
- 1 2 3 Dieffenbach, E. (1843). "List of Annulose Animals hitherto recorded as found in New Zealand with descriptions of some new species by Messrs. Adam White and Edward Doubleday.". Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of the country. Vol. 2. London: John Murray. p. 287.
- ↑ "Udea flavidalis (Doubleday, 1843)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ↑ George Francis Hampson (1899). "A revision of the moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and family Pyralidae (Part II)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 172–291. ISSN 0370-2774. Wikidata Q113549142.
- ↑ Hodges, Ronald W. (1983). Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico : including Greenland. London: E.W. Classey. p. 72. ISBN 0-86096-016-1. OCLC 9748761.
- ↑ B. H. Patrick; R. D. Archibald (January 1988). "Lepidoptera light-trapped at Owaka, South Otago". New Zealand Entomologist. 11 (1): 70–72. doi:10.1080/00779962.1988.9722541. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q105740584.
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