Tingena hemimochla is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the North Island. Adults of this species are on the wing from December until March.
Tingena hemimochla | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Oecophoridae |
Genus: | Tingena |
Species: | T. hemimochla |
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Tingena hemimochla (Meyrick, 1883)[1] | |
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This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1883 using specimens collected at Hamilton, Wellington and Napier in January and March.[3] He originally named the species Oecophora hemimochla.[3] Meyrick went on to give a fuller description of the species in 1884.[4] In 1915 Meyrick placed this species within the Borkhausenia genus.[5] In 1926 Alfred Philpott studied the genitalia of the female of this species.[6] George Hudson discussed this species under the name B. hemimochla 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, collected at the Wellington Botanic Garden, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2] In 2004 the phylogenetic relationship of this species to similar species was studied.[8]
Meyrick originally described this species as follows:
Fore wings whitish, irrorated with grey, an oblique mark beneath fold, two discal dots, a bar from anal angle, and sub-apical spot blackish ; hind wings whitish-grey ; head ochreous-white.[3]
Meyrick in 1884 described this species as follows:
Male, female. — 14+1⁄2—16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, basal 2⁄3 of second joint, and base and apex of terminal joint suffused with dark fuscous. Antennas grey. Thorax ochreous-whitish, more or less mixed with grey. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Anterior and middle legs dark fuscous, central ring of middle tibiae, and apex of all joints ochreous-whitish ; posterior legs ochreous-whitish. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded'; white, irregularly suffused with whitish-ochreous, and sprinkled with grey and a few blackish scales ; costal edge dark fuscous at base ; an oblique dark fuscous streak from fold before middle to near inner margin before 1⁄3, generally distinct on fold only ; a blackish dot in disc before middle, and a larger one beyond middle, sometimes connected with apex of oblique streak by a cloudy dark fuscous line ; a cloudy dark fuscous bar extending from anal angle almost or quite to second discal dot ; a cloudy dark fuscous apical spot, suffusedly produced along hindmargin ; sometimes a curved transverse cloudy dark fuscous line near hindmargin, indented inwards beneath costa, often obsolete : cilia whitish, with rows of dark fuscous points, forming a cloudy spot at apex and anal angle. Hindwings whitish-grey or light grey ; cilia grey- whitish.[4]
This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed near Lake Ohia, Pairatahi, Hamilton, Cambridge, Wellington and Napier.[9][1][7]
The adults of this species are on the wing from December until March.[7]
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