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Pseudocoremia lupinata

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Species of moth endemic to New Zealand

Pseudocoremia lupinata
Female
Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Pseudocoremia
Species: P. lupinata
Binomial name
Pseudocoremia lupinata
(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms
  • Cidaria lupinata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Selidosema lupinata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
  • Selidosema humillima Hudson, 1898

Pseudocoremia lupinata is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand and can be found in both the North and South Islands. The favoured habitat of this species is Kānuka scrubland as its larval hosts are species in the genus Kunzea. Both the larvae and adults of this species are nocturnal. Adult moths are commonly on the wing from December to June and are attracted to light.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Baron Cajetan von Felder, Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875 using a specimen collected in Nelson by T. R. Oxley and named Cidaria lupinata. Edward Meyrick in 1883 placed this species within the genus Pseudocoremia. He confirmed this placement in 1884. In 1898 George Hudson, thinking he was describing a new species, named this species Selidosema humilima. In 1909 Meyrick placed synonymised Selidosema humilima with Selidosema lupinata. Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under the name Selidosema lipinata in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand. In 1988 J. S. Dugdale discussed this species under the name Pseudocoremia lupinata. The male holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Description

D. E. Gaskin described the egg of this species as follows:

The egg is covered with hexagonal depressions. It is oval, and pale green when first laid.

Gaskin described the larva of this species as follows:

The freshly emerged caterpillar is yellow. When fully grown it is about an inch and a quarter long and dark rather dull yellow with brownish mottling and darker brown markings. There are also a number of green markings on the back and sides.There are a few short black hairs.

George Hudson described the adult of the species as follows:

The expansion of the wings is from 1+1⁄4 to 1+3⁄8 inches. The fore-wings are pale dull pinkish-brown; there are three short oblique dark brown stripes on the costa, inclined very much towards the termen; the first of these stripes is distinctly double, and the second and third partially so; there is an indistinct brown mark just below the apex, several slender faint streaks on the veins near the middle of the wing, and a very distinct brown shading on the dorsum. The hind-wings are very pale ochreous. In the female the sub-apical marking is darker and both fore- and hind-wings are more or less sprinkled with brown.

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand. It can be found in both the North and South Islands from Auckland to Invercargill.

Habitat

Favoured habitat and larval host Kunzea ericoides.

This species inhabits native forest including Kānuka scrubland.

Life history and behaviour

The egg takes about two to three weeks to hatch. The larva feeds at night and remains unmoving during the day. This species pupates at ground level. The adult moths are said to be on the wing from December to June. However D. E. Gaskin hypothesised that there are two distinct generations of this moth a year. The adult moth is nocturnal and is attracted to light.

Hosts

The larval plant hosts include species in the genus Kunzea.

References

  1. ^ "Pseudocoremia lupinata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  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: 168. 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. 459. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  4. von Felder, Baron Cajetan; Felder, Rudolf; Rogenhofer, Alois Friedrich (1875). "Lepidoptera". Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde. (Zoologischer Theil.). pt.9:Bd.2:Abt.2 Atlas: pl. CXXXI, Fig 19 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. Meyrick, E. (1883). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera". New Zealand Journal of Science. 1: 526–531 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  6. Edward Meyrick (May 1884). "A Monograph of the New Zealand Geometrina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 16: 98-99, 110. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q109615359.
  7. Hudson, G. V. (1898). New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera). London: West, Newman & co. pp. 83–84. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.32466. OCLC 727236768. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  8. Edward Meyrick (1909), Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera, vol. 41, p. 7, Wikidata Q110207561
  9. ^ Hudson, G. V. (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 143, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
  10. ^ David Edward Gaskin (1966), The butterflies and common moths of New Zealand, pp. 148–149, Wikidata Q115000559
  11. Harris, Richard J.; Toft, Richard J.; Dugdale, John S.; Williams, Peter A.; Rees, Joanna S. (2004). "Insect assemblages in a native (kanuka – Kunzea ericoides) and an invasive (gorse – Ulex europaeus) shrubland". New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 28 (1): 35–47. ISSN 0110-6465.
  12. John Stewart Dugdale; John Hutcheson (August 1997). "Invertebrate values of kanuka (Kunzea ericoides) stands, Gisborne Region". Science for Conservation. 55. Department of Conservation: 1–30. ISSN 1173-2946. Wikidata Q110426224.
  13. Robert Hoare (2014). A Photographic Guide to Moths & Butterflies of New Zealand. Illustrator: Olivier Jean-Philippe Ball. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-86966-399-5. Wikidata Q59396160.
  14. "Pseudocoremia lupinata (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)". plant-synz.landcareresearch.co.nz. 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  15. Brian H. Patrick (1994), Coastal butterflies and moths of Wellington and South Wairarapa. (PDF), Wikidata Q110426707, archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2021
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Pseudocoremia lupinata
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