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Species of moth

Erechthias indicans
Female holotype
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Erechthias
Species: E. indicans
Binomial name
Erechthias indicans
Meyrick, 1923

Erechthias indicans is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1923. This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Wellington in January.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1923. The female holotype specimen of this species was collected by George Vernon Hudson in Karori, Wellington and is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Description

Illustration of female E. indicans

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♀ 9 mm. Head white, sides of crown brown. Palpi fuscous, tip white. Thorax brown, with white dorsal stripe. Abdomen whitish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, apex produced; brown irrorated with dark fuscous; an irregular white median stripe from base to 3⁄5, broadest towards its middle, apex pointed; a narrow white dorsal stripe from base to tornus; rather thick irregular very oblique white streaks from costa at middle and 3⁄4 almost to termen; a small round black apical spot preceded by a triangular white spot on costa: cilia whitish, round apex a median line of dark-fuscous points, a short subbasal similar line beneath apex, and one at base along termen. Hindwings and cilia whitish.

Distribution

Ōtari-Wilton's Bush

This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species has been observed in Karori, Wellington and in Ōtari-Wilton's Bush.

Behaviour

Adults are on the wing in January.

References

  1. ^ "Erechthias indicans Meyrick, 1923". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  2. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 464. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  3. ^ Meyrick, Edward (1923). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 54: 162–169. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  4. Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 62. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  5. Townsend, Dougal (2021-03-04). "Erechthias indicans". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  6. Hudson, G. V. (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 107, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
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