Asterivora inspoliata
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| Male holotype specimen held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Choreutidae |
| Genus: | Asterivora |
| Species: | A. inspoliata
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| Binomial name | |
| Asterivora inspoliata | |
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Asterivora inspoliata is a species of moth in the family Choreutidae.[1] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in the southern parts of the South Island. Adults are on the wing in December and January.
Taxonomy
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This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1930, using a specimen collected by C. E. Clarke at Flat Mountain, Hunter Mountains in December at 4,000 feet (1,200 m), and named Simaethis inspoliata.[3] In 1939 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under that name.[4] In 1979 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Asterivora.[5] In 1988 Dugdale confirmed this placement.[2] The male holotype specimen, collected at Flat Mountain, is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[2]
Description
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Philpott described this species as follows:
♂. 10 mm. Head and thorax dark brown. Pace grey. Palpi, second segment with dense rounded descending tuft, grey. Antennae black spotted with white, ciliations in ♂ 3+1⁄4. Abdomen greyish fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, mixed and banded with white. Porewings with costa slightly arched, apex rounded, termen almost straight, oblique; brown; markings formed chiefly by dense white irroration; a small irregular basal patch; a broad band from 1⁄5 to 1⁄2 costa and 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 dorsum, its inner edge slightly incurved and its outer margin irregular; a broad fascia from costa at 3⁄4 to tornus, constricted beneath costa and somewhat excurved; a thin subterminal line white on costa and metallic blue round termen: between second and third fasciae on lower half of wing a large black blotch enclosing two small patches of metallic blue scales: fringes brown, touched with white at tornus and with a darker basal line. Hindwings pale purplish brown, lighter towards apex; a rather obscure white fascia from tornus reaching about half way round termen and keeping close to the margin: fringes brown, more or less white-tipped and with a darker basal line.[3]
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been found in subalpine habitat in the hills and mountains of Otago, Fiordland and Southland.[2][6]
Behaviour
Adults of this species are on the wing in December and January.[3][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 No label or title -- debug: Q45922947, p. 457, Wikidata Q45922947
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 No label or title -- debug: Q45083134, p. 113, Wikidata Q45083134
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 No label or title -- debug: Q58676529, p. 12, Wikidata Q58676529
- ↑ No label or title -- debug: Q109420935, p. 457, Wikidata Q109420935
- ↑ No label or title -- debug: Q54576372, Wikidata Q54576372
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Asterivora inspoliata Philpott, 1930". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 4 February 2022.