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Tingena levicula

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Tingena levicula
Male holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. levicula
Binomial name
Tingena levicula
(Philpott, 1930)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Borkhausenia levicula Philpott, 1930

Tingena levicula is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

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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

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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 ♂34. 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 13; a similar fascia from costa at 14 to dorsum at 23; a third fascia from costa at 12 to above tornus where it coalesces with an inwardly oblique fascia from costa at 45 ; 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

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This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Fiordland.[1][6]

Behaviour

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The adults of this species are on the wing in December.[4]

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: 103. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. ^ a b c Philpott, Alfred (1930). "New Species of Lepidoptera in the Collection of the Auckland Museum". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 1: 8. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42905932. Wikidata Q58676529.
  4. ^ a b George Vernon Hudson (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
  5. ^ "Borkhausenia levicula". Auckland Museum Collections Online. 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  6. ^ Clarke, Charles E. (February 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.