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Tingena berenice is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in the North and South Islands. It is a brightly coloured species which is on the wing in November. Its preferred habitat is mixed beech forest.

Tingena berenice
Female holotype
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Tingena
Species:	T. berenice
Binomial name
Tingena berenice (Meyrick, 1929)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Borkhausenia berenice Meyrick, 1929

Taxonomy

This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929 using specimens collected by George Hudson in November in Wellington and named Borkhausenia berenice.[3] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The female holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Meyrick described the adults of this species as follows:

♂. 15 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint irrorated dark grey except apex. Thorax grey-whitish, posteriorly tinged pale fulvous on margins. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, rather strongly oblique; ochreous-whitish, becoming pale ochreous-yellowish posteriorly and towards dorsum anteriorly; a very oblique fascia of grey suffusion from base of costa to middle of dorsum; costal spots of grey irroration at 1⁄3 and 3⁄5; a subtriangular blackish blotch on dorsum about 3⁄4, surrounded by broad light fulvous irroration or suffusion extending to tornus and 3⁄4 across wing: cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings grey; cilia pale grey.[3]

This species is brightly coloured.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] It was first collected by Hudson in Gollans Valley and has also been found near the Homer Tunnel.[4][5]

Behaviour

Adults of this species are on the wing in November.[4]

Habitat

This species preferred habitat is mixed beech forest.[4]

References

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