Archyala pentazyga

Archyala pentazyga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Archyala
Species: A. pentazyga
Binomial name
Archyala pentazyga
Meyrick, 1915

Archyala pentazyga is a species of moth in the Tineidae family.[1] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915 using a specimen provided by George Vernon Hudson.[2] Hudson collected the specimen at Days Bay in Wellington in January.[3] It is endemic to New Zealand.[4]

Meyrick described the species as follows:

Head fuscous. Palpi fuscous mixed with darker, rough scales of second joint longer than in paraghjpta. Thorax and abdomen rather dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, rather strongly oblique ; fuscous, with fine rather oblique transverse striae of dark-fuscous scales ; five rather narrow oblique transverse dark-fuscous fasciae, first from A of costa, interrupted in disc and not reaching dorsum, second and third connected by a suffused patch in disc, third interrupted beneath this, fourth not reaching tornus, fifth curved beneath to termen above tornus : cilia fuscous, with blackish subbasal line. Hindwings rather dark fuscous, lighter and rather thinly scaled towards base : cilia fuscous, with dark-fuscous subbasal line.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume two. Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 464. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
  2. ↑ Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 60. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  3. 1 2 Meyrick, Edward (1915). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 201–204 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. ↑ "Archyala pentazyga Meyrick, 1915". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera, by Edward Meyrick (1915) in volume 47 of the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute.


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