Biology:Tingena melinella

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Short description: Species of moth, endemic to New Zealand

Tingena melinella
Tingena melinella holotype.jpg
Male holotype
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Tingena
Species:
T. melinella
Binomial name
Tingena melinella
(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Philpott, 1926 Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Borkhausenia melinella Oecophora melinella
  • (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) Borkhausenia freta

Tingena melinella is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Nelson and Canterbury.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Felder & Rogenhofer in 1875 and named Oecophora melinella.[3] Felder & Rogenhofer used a specimen collected by T. R. Oxley in Nelson.[2] George Hudson did not mention this species in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[2] However he did discuss the subsequently synonymised species Borkhausenia freta.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Tingena. In the same publication Dugdale synonymised Borkhausenia freta with T. melinella.[2] The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Illustration used in original description of species.
B. freta now known as T. melinella, illustrated by George Hudson.

Hudson, describing the species B. freta, since synonymised with T. melinella, as follows:

The expansion of the wings is slightly under ​5⁄8 inch … has the head, anterior portions of thorax and extreme base of costa, blackish-brown; the fore-wings are also deeper yellow.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] It has been observed in Nelson and in Canterbury.[2][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 , pp. 462 , Wikidata Q45922947
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 , pp. 103 , Wikidata Q45083134
  3. ↑ Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Bernhard (1875). Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair.. 2. Wien: Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei; in Commission bei K. Gerold's Sohn. pp. Taf. CXXXIX. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16568. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 , pp. 264 , Wikidata Q58593286
  5. ↑ Hooson, Scott (27 January 2015). "Christchurch District Plan. Site of Ecological Significance. Lake Forsyth North Side.". https://districtplan.ccc.govt.nz/Images/DistrictPlanImages/Site%20of%20Ecological%20Significance/SES%20H%2018.pdf. 
  6. ↑  , Wikidata Q97665452

Wikidata ☰ Q13860067 entry



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