Biology:Scoparia acharis

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Short description: Species of moth

Scoparia acharis
Scoparia acharis female.jpg
Female
Scoparia acharis male.jpg
Male
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Scoparia
Species:
S. acharis
Binomial name
Scoparia acharis
Meyrick, 1884[1]

Scoparia acharis is a moth of the family Crambidae.[2] It was named by Edward Meyrick in 1884.[3][4] Meyrick gave a description of the species in 1885.[5] This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Description

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The wingspan is 17.5 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous, irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous. There is a sharply defined oblique black spot from the base of the costa. The first line is indicated only by an obscure dark posterior margin, followed on the costa by a sharply-defined moderate triangular black spot. The terminal area is suffused with brownish-ochreous and there is a cloudy, ochreous-whitish subterminal line with a row of ochreous-whitish marks. The hindwings are very pale whitish grey.[5]


Adults have been recorded on wing in January.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Scoparia acharis Meyrick, 1884". http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/498e665a-e1bc-4a1c-b4bf-5486603cd0ac. Retrieved 27 January 2018. 
  2. , p. 458 , Wikidata Q45922947
  3. Meyrick, E. (1884). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. IV. Scopariadae." (in en). New Zealand Journal of Science 2: 235–237. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41863306. Retrieved 27 January 2018. 
  4. Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand 14: 159. https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/26324/FNZ14Dugdale1988.pdf. Retrieved 27 January 2018. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Meyrick, E. (1885). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. IV. Scopariadae." (in en). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 17: 68–120. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33934515. Retrieved 27 January 2018. 

Wikidata ☰ Q14324197 entry