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Tingena anaema

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Tingena anaema
Male lectotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. anaema
Binomial name
Tingena anaema
(Meyrick, 1883)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Oecophora anaema Meyrick, 1883
  • Borkhausenia anaema (Meyrick, 1883)
  • Borkhausenia anaema (Meyrick, 1884)

Tingena anaema is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been collected at Lake Wakatipu, Invercargill and Stewart Island / Rakiura. The adults of the species are on the wing in December.

Taxonomy

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This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1883 using specimens collected at Lake Wakatipu in December and named Oecophora anaema.[3] Meyrick gave a more detailed description under this name in 1884.[4] In 1915 Meyrick placed this species within the Borkhausenia genus.[5] In 1926 Alfred Philpott was unable to study the genitalia of the male of this species as a result of no specimens being available in New Zealand collections.[6] George Hudson discussed this species under the name B. anaema in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[7] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male lectotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

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Meyrick originally described this species as follows:

Fore wings pale whitish-ochreous, with fine scattered fuscous scales, a basal streak on costa, a bar from anal angle, and sometimes a mark on fold dark fuscous ; hind wings grey ; thorax dark fuscous, with a small pale lateral spot.[3]

Meyrick described the male of the species in more detail as follows:

Male. — 13+12-14+12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous, finely and closelyirrorated with dark fuscous. Palpi pale whitish-ochreous, externally irrorated with dark fuscous except at apex of joints. Antennae whitish-ochreous, obscurely annulated with dark fuscous. Thorax dark fuscous, with a small whitish-ochreous lateral spot. Abdomen grey. Anterior and middle legs dark fuscous, with ochreous-whitish rings at apex of joints ; posterior legs ochreous-whitish. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex blunt-pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; very pale whitish-ochreous, with fine scattered light fuscous scales ; basal third of costa broadly dark fuscous ; a short inwardly oblique dark fuscous mark on fold at 13, sometimes obsolete ; a cloudy oblique dark fuscous bar from disc beyond middle to anal angle : cilia very pale whitish-ochreous, with lines of grey points, forming a broader dark grey shade before tips. Hindwings grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia light grey.[4]

Meyrick stated that this species could be distinguished from its close relatives by the dark colouration on its head as well as on its thorax except for a small lateral patch. The forewings have a dull appearance as a result of fine brown speckles, visible under a microscope.[4]

Distribution

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Lake Wakatipu, type locality of T. anaema.

It is endemic to New Zealand.[1] This species has been observed in Invercargill, Stewart Island and Lake Wakatipu.[8]

Behaviour

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The adults of this species are on the wing in December.[8]

References

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  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". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 99. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. ^ a b Edward Meyrick (September 1883). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera.—III.—Oecophoridae". New Zealand Journal of Science. 1: 524. Wikidata Q106368126.
  4. ^ a b c Edward Meyrick (1884). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. III. Oecophoridae". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 16: 42. 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: 212. 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 New Zealand Institute. 56: 399–413. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110157185.
  7. ^ George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 263, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  8. ^ a b Alfred Philpott (1917). "A list of the Lepidoptera of Otago". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 49: 229. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63958657.