Biology:Elachista antipodensis

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Short description: Species of moth endemic to New Zealand

Elachista antipodensis
Holotype
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Elachistidae
Genus: Elachista
Species:
E. antipodensis
Binomial name
Elachista antipodensis
(Dugdale, 1971)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Irenicodes galatheae subsp. antipodensis Dugdale, 1971
  • (Dugdale, 1971) Elachista galatheae ssp. antipodensis

Elachista antipodensis is a moth in the family Elachistidae.[1] It was first described by John S. Dugdale in 1971. It is endemic to New Zealand and found on the Antipodes Islands.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by John S. Dugdale in 1971.[2][3] Dugdale originally believed it to be a subspecies of Irenicodes galatheae and named it Irenicodes galatheae antipodensis.[2] In 1977 Ernst Christian Traugott-Olsen and Ebbe Nielsen confirmed that the genus Irenicodes was synonymised with Elachista.[4] In 1999 Lauri Kaila raised this subspecies to species rank.[5] The justification for this change was given in 2019 and was based on the differences in male genitalia between E. galatheae and E. antipodensis.[1] The male holotype specimen, collected on Antipodes Island, is held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand and is found on the Antipodes Islands.[6][2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3  , Wikidata Q86984314
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2  , Wikidata Q64006453
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 , pp. 112 , Wikidata Q45083134
  4. ↑ Traugott-Olsen, Ernst; Schmidt Nielsen, Ebbe (1977). "On the status of the genera Irenicodes Meyrick, 1919 and Euproteodes Viette, 1954 (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae)". Insect Systematics & Evolution 8 (4): 317–318. doi:10.1163/187631277X00413. ISSN 1399-560X. https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/8/4/article-p317_6.xml. 
  5. ↑ Kaila, LaurI. (April 1999). "Phylogeny and classification of the Elachistidae s.s . (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)" (in en). Systematic Entomology 24 (2): 139–169. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00069.x. ISSN 0307-6970. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-3113.1999.00069.x. 
  6. ↑ , pp. 459 , Wikidata Q45922947

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