Tingena honesta
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Tingena |
| Species: | T. honesta
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| Tingena honesta | |
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Tingena honesta is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and can be found in the South Island.
Taxonomy
[edit]This species was first described by Alfred Philpott using specimens collected at Lake Tekapo and Lake Pukaki in December and named Borkhausenia honesta.[3] In 1939 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his book A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand using the same name.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype specimen is held at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[2]
Description
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Philpott described this species as follows:
♂. 16–19 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi fuscous; terminal segment mixed with ochreous. Antennae fuscous, ciliations in ♂ 1¼. Abdomen grey. Legs ochreous, anterior pair fuscous with tarsi obscurely annulated with ochreous. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very oblique; grey, strongly suffused with white in disc; markings blackish-fuscous; an obscure median blotch near base; 1st discal and plical round, plical obliquely before 1st discal; 2nd discal white-centred, open beneath; a thin subterminal line, deeply indented beneath costa; some blackish scales above tornus and round termen; fringes grey with some blackish scales. Hindwings fuscous-grey; fringes grey with two obscure darker lines.[3]
This species is similar in appearance to T. ancogramma but is paler.[3]
Distribution
[edit]This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the South Island.[1]
Behaviour
[edit]The adult moths are on the wing in December.[4]
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d Dugdale , J. S. (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 102. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ a b c Alfred Philpott (1929). "Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 60: 303. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q108243130.
- ^ 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. 445, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935