Heterocrossa cryodana

Heterocrossa cryodana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Carposinidae
Genus: Heterocrossa
Species: H. cryodana
Binomial name
Heterocrossa cryodana
Meyrick, 1885
Synonyms
  • Carposina cryodana (Meyrick, 1885)

Heterocrossa cryodana is a species of moth in the family Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 using material collected in Dunedin and named Heterocrossa cryodana.[1][2] In 1922 Meyrick listed Heterocrossa as a synonym for Carposina.[3][4] George Hudson, in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand, discusses this species under the name Carposina cryodana.[5] Alfred Philpott studied the male genitalia of this species in 1928.[6] In 1978 Elwood Zimmerman argued that the genus Heterocrassa should not be a synonym of Carposina as the genitalia of the species within the Heterocrassa genus are distinctive.[3] In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned the species back to the genus Heterocrossa.[7] The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[7]

Description

This species was described by Meyrick as follows:

Male, female. — 16-17 mm. Head and thorax white, slightly speckled with grey. Palpi in male moderate, in female long ; lower half dark fuscous, upper half white. Antennae whitish. Abdomen and legs ochreous-whitish, anterior and middle pair dark fuscous except apex of joints. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, tolerably oblong, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin straight, very oblique ; white, densely irrorated with pale fuscous-grey ; a short black streak from base beneath costa ; tufts preceded by a few black scales ; sometimes a thick irregular blackish longitudinal streak in disc, extending from ​1⁄4—​2⁄3 ; cilia white, densely irrorated with pale grey. Hindwings grey-whitish ; cilia whitish.[2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[8][9] It has been collected in Dunedin and Invercargill and Codfish Island.[5][10]

Biology and behaviour

This species is on the wing in September and November.[5] It is associated with Leptospermum species.[5] Larvae of the species have been found on fruits.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1885). "Tortricina (supplementary). Additions to former paper. Abstract". New Zealand journal of science (Dunedin). 2: 348–349 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. 1 2 Meyrick, Edward (1885). "On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 17 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. 1 2 Zimmerman, Elwood (1978). Insects of Hawaii. 9. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. p. 797. ISBN 9780824804879.
  4. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1922). "Lepidoptera Heterocera Fam. Carposinidiae". Genera insectorum. fasc.176–180: 1–235 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 217. OCLC 25449322.
  6. ↑ Philpott, Alfred (1928). "The male genitalia of the New Zealand Carposinidae" (PDF). Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand. 59: 476–480.
  7. 1 2 Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera – annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 1–269. ISBN 0477025188. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  8. ↑ "Heterocrossa cryodana Meyrick, 1885". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. 1 2 Patrick, B. H. (1997). "Codfish Island moths". The Weta. 20: 17–20.
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