Heterocrossa epomiana

Heterocrossa epomiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Carposinidae
Genus: Heterocrossa
Species: H. epomiana
Binomial name
Heterocrossa epomiana
Synonyms[2]
  • Carposina epomiana (Meyrick, 1885)

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

Taxonomy

This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 using a specimen he collected at Otira Gorge at an altitude of 1,600 ft in January.[3][4][2] In 1922 Meyrick classifed Heterocrossa as a synonym of the genus Carposina.[5][6] George Hudson, in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand, discusses this species as a synonym of Carposina gonosemana.[7] 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.[5] In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned the species back to the genus Heterocrossa.[2] The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

This species is visually very similar to Heterocrossa gonosemana and to Heterocrossa philpotti.[2]

Description

Meyrick described the species as follows:

Female. — 17 mm. Head and thorax white, irrorated with light grey. Palpi rather long, lower half dark fuscous, upper white. Antennae whitish. Abdomen and legs ochreous-whitish, anterior pair suffused with dark fuscous, middle pair greyish. Forewings elongate, narrow, oblong, costa moderately arched, somewhat bent at ​1⁄3, apex round-pointed, hindmargin slightly sinuate, rather strongly oblique ; very pale grey, irrorated with white towards costa and hindmargin, and with scattered dark fuscous scales ; a blackish elongate spot along costa at base ; a blackish dot above inner margin near base ; costa with six small fuscous spots between ​1⁄3 and apex ; discal and posterior tufts also preceded by small obscure fuscous spots : cilia pale grey mixed with whitish. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish.[4]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1][8] It has been collected in Westland.[4]

Biology and behaviour

This species is on the wing in January.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Heterocrossa epomiana Meyrick, 1885". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  3. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1885). "Tortricina (supplementary). Additions to former paper. Abstract". New Zealand journal of science (Dunedin). 2: 348–349 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Meyrick, Edward (1885). "On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 17 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. 1 2 Zimmerman, Elwood (1978). Insects of Hawaii. 9. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. p. 797. ISBN 9780824804879.
  6. ↑ Meyrick, Edward (1922). "Lepidoptera Heterocera Fam. Carposinidiae". Genera insectorum. fasc.176–180: 1–235 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  7. ↑ Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 217. OCLC 25449322.
  8. ↑ 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.
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