Asterivora analoga
| Asterivora analoga | |
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| Male holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Choreutidae |
| Genus: | Asterivora |
| Species: | A. analoga
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| Binomial name | |
| Asterivora analoga | |
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Asterivora analoga is a moth of the family Choreutidae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in both the North and South Islands. Adults are on the wing in December and January.
Taxonomy
[edit]This species was first described by Edward Meyrick using specimens collected at Mount Arthur at altitudes of 4000 ft in January and named Simaethis analoga.[3] Meyrick originally believed this species to be a form of Asterivora microlitha.[3] In 1927 Alfred Philpott studied the male genitalia of this species.[4] In 1928 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[5] In 1979 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Asterivora.[6] In 1988 Dugdale confirmed this placement.[7] The male lectotype specimen, collected at Mount Arthur, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[7]
Description
[edit]The wingspan is 8–9 mm. The head is dark fuscous, the face and sides of the crown are irrorated (speckled) with white. The antennae are dark fuscous dotted with white. The thorax is dark fuscous, somewhat sprinkled with white. The abdomen is dark fuscous, although the segmental margins are strongly white. The dark bronzy-fuscous forewings are rather elongate-triangular and the costa is gently arched, the apex obtuse and the termen slightly rounded and somewhat oblique. There are three curved cloudy transverse lines of white irroration on the anterior half and a white line beyond the middle forming a quadrangular loop behind a transverse-linear white discal mark. The upper side of the loop is silvery-metallic and there is a silvery-metallic dot on the upper extremity of the dorsal segment. The hindwings are fuscous, becoming dark fuscous posteriorly. There is a very short white detached transverse mark before the middle of the termen, and sometimes a dot on the tornus.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] It has been observed in both the North and South Islands, including at Kaeo, Mount Taranaki, Mount Arthur, and in Otago[5][8][9][10]
Behaviour
[edit]This species is on the wing in January and December.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 457. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ a b "Asterivora analoga (Meyrick, 1912)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^ a b c Meyrick, E. (1912). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 44: 117–126 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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- ^ Alfred Philpott (15 November 1927). "The Male Genitalia of the New Zealand Glyphipterygidae". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 58: 337–347. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110772020.
- ^ a b George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 309, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
- ^ J. S. Dugdale (July 1979). "A new generic name for the New Zealand species previously assigned to Simaethis auctorum (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae), with description of a new species". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 6 (3): 461–466. doi:10.1080/03014223.1979.10428386. ISSN 0301-4223. Wikidata Q54576372.
- ^ a b 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: 113. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 457, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
- ^ "Asterivora analoga". Auckland Museum Collections Online. 2021. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ B. Patrick (January 1982). "Lepidoptera of Danseys Pass, Otago". New Zealand Entomologist. 7 (3): 332–336. doi:10.1080/00779962.1982.9722418. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q54755440.
- ^ "Asterivora analoga Meyrick, 1912". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 1 February 2022.