Tingena laudata
| Tingena laudata | |
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| Male holotype | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Tingena |
| Species: | T. laudata
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| Binomial name | |
| Tingena laudata | |
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Tingena laudata is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Fiordland and Otago. Adults of this species are on the wing in January.
Taxonomy[edit]
This species was first described by Alfred Philpott using specimens collected by Charles Edwin Clarke at Bluecliff in Fiordland and Waitati in January and named Borkhausenia laudata.[3] In 1939 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under the name B. laudata.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype specimen, collected at Bluecliff, is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[2]
Description[edit]
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Philpott described this species as follows:
♂ . 13-15 mm. Head and palpi purplish brown. Antennae dark brown, minutely spotted with ochreous, ciliations in ♂ 2+1⁄2. Thorax purplish brown, apex and tips of tegulae yellow. Abdomen purplish brown. Legs fuscous, tarsi very obscurely annulated with ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen straight, oblique; bright ferruginous; beneath fold rather bright ochreous; a blackish spot below fold at 1⁄2 margined anteriorly with ferruginous and posteriorly with ochreous white: fringes ferruginous. Hindwings purplish, fuscous: fringes fuscous with darker basal line.[3]
This species is similar in appearance to T. amiculata but is smaller in size and has longer antennal ciliations.[3] The markings and colouration of the forewings is also different.[3]
Distribution[edit]
This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Fiordland and Otago.[1][4]
Behaviour[edit]
Adults of this species are on the wing in January.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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: 102. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ a b c d Philpott, Alfred (1930). "New Species of Lepidoptera in the Collection of the Auckland Museum". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 1: 9. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42905932. Wikidata Q58676529.
- ^ a b c George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, pp. 443–444, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935