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Euchersadaula lathriopa

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Species of moth endemic to New Zealand

Euchersadaula lathriopa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Euchersadaula
Species: E. lathriopa
Binomial name
Euchersadaula lathriopa
(Meyrick, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Trachypepla lathriopa Meyrick, 1905

Euchersadaula lathriopa is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1905. This species is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1905 using specimens collected in Wellington, Nelson and the Mount Arthur plateau in January.

Description

Meyrick described this species was described as follows:

♂. 14-16 mm. Head and thorax brown. Palpi brownish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous, extreme tips of second and terminal joints whitish. Antennae dark fuscous, ciliations 1+1⁄2, even. Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; light reddish-fuscous, irregularly sprinkled with brown and dark fuscous; edge of basal patch indicated by a very obscure pale acutely angulated narrow fascia; stigmata dark fuscous, very undefined, plical rather obliquely beyond first discal; a subterminal series of undefined dark fuscous dots, indented beneath costa; a series of undefined dark fuscous dots along posterior part of costa and termen : cilia whitish-fuscous, tinged with reddish, with a grey postmedian shade. Hind-wings dark fuscous, lighter towards base; cilia grey, with dark grey basal shade.

Distribution

This species is found throughout the North Island and as far south as Christchurch in the South Island.

Habitat

This species inhabits native forest.

Behaviour

Adult moths are on the wing in January.

References

  1. ^ "Euchersadaula lathriopa (Meyrick, 1905)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
  2. ^ 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: 91. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. 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.
  4. ^ Edward Meyrick (15 July 1905). "XII. Notes on New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 53 (2): 237. doi:10.1111/J.1365-2311.1905.TB02451.X. ISSN 0035-8894. Wikidata Q54553180.
  5. ^ Hudson, G. V. (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 273, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
Taxon identifiers
Euchersadaula lathriopa


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