Asterivora colpota

Asterivora colpota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Choreutidae
Genus: Asterivora
Species: A. colpota
Binomial name
Asterivora colpota
(Meyrick, 1911)[1]
Synonyms
  • Simaethis colpota Meyrick, 1911

Asterivora colpota is a moth in the Choreutidae family.[1] It is known from New Zealand.[2]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The head and thorax are dark bronzy-fuscous sprinkled with whitish. The antennae are black ringed with white. The abdomen is blackish-fuscous, although the segmental margins are brownish. The dark bronzy-fuscous forewings are elongate and rather oblique, rather dilated posteriorly, the costa slightly is arched, the apex obtuse and the termen bowed. The basal and terminal areas are finely sprinkled with whitish and there are two parallel rather curved irregular transverse lines of whitish irroration about two-fifth and a transverse line of whitish irroration from a white mark on the costa at three-fifth. There is also a transverse linear mark of whitish irroration terminated beneath by a white dot and a thick subterminal shade of whitish irroration, somewhat interrupted above the middle. The hindwings are dark grey, although the terminal half is blackish. Here, two parallel lines of whitish irroration are found, running towards the termen on the lower half.

References

  1. 1 2 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. 457. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
  2. ↑ Dugdale, J. S. (1979). "A new generic name for the New Zealand species previously assigned to Simaethis auctorum (Lepidoptera: Choreutidae), with description of a new species". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 6 (3): 461–466. doi:10.1080/03014223.1979.10428386. ISSN 1175-8821 – via Taylor & Francis.


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