Glaucocharis pyrsophanes is a moth in the family Crambidae.[2] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1882. It is endemic to New Zealand.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Crambinae |
| Tribe: | Diptychophorini |
| Genus: | Glaucocharis |
| Species: | G. pyrsophanes
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| Glaucocharis pyrsophanes | |
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Taxonomy
editThis species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1882 and named Diptychophora pyrsophanes.[3] Meyrick gave a fuller description of this species in 1883.[4] The female lectotype, collected at the Wellington Botanic Garden by Meyrick, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[5]
Description
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Meyrick described this species as follows:
Male, female. — 13+1⁄2-16 mm. Head ochreous or brownish - ochreous. Palpi light yellowish-ochreous, externally more brownish. Antennae dark fuscous. Thorax rather dark purplish-fuscous. Abdomen dark purplish-fuscous, with a light yellowish ring near base. Legs clear whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, very broad posteriorly, costa very gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin oblique, indentations moderately deep ; ochreous-brown, almost wholly suffused with dark purplish-fuscous except narrowly along hindmargin and more broadly at apex and anal angle, and finely irrorated with grey, especially towards costa and disc beyond middle ; a very small triangular yellow spot on inner margin at 1⁄4 ; an equally small rather subquadrate yellow spot on inner margin at 3⁄4 , with a pale yellow dot rather above and beyond its apex ; a very faintly perceptible darker transverse line from costa at 1⁄4 to first dorsal spot, sharply angulated outwards beneath costa ; a suffused darker spot in disc above and beyond middle ; a small outwardly oblique triangular pale yellow spot on costa at 3⁄4 , sometimes closely preceded by a faint oblique yellowish costal mark ; a very small suffused pale yellowish spot on costa before apex ; a dark fuscous dot in apex, preceded by a clear white dot; sometimes a white dot on hind margin in upper indentation ; a slender dark fuscous hindmarginal line : cilia whitish ochreous, with a dark grey line near base, on indentations wholly clear white, a dark grey spot at apex, another between indentations, a third above anal angle, a fourth on anal angle. Hindwings fuscous-grey, with a very indistinct darker line posteriorly ; a dark fuscous hindmarginalline ; cilia grey- whitish, with a grey line near base.[4]
Distribution
editThis species is endemic to New Zealand.[1]
Behaviour
editAdults of this moth are known to pollinate Leptospermum scoparium and Helichrysum selago.[6]
References
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- ^ a b c "NZOR Name Details - Glaucocharis pyrsophanes (Meyrick, 1882)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 457. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ Edward Meyrick (June 1882). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera (I.)". New Zealand Journal of Science. 1: 186. Wikidata Q115108516.
- ^ a b Edward Meyrick (May 1883). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. I and II. Crambidae and Tortricina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 15: 11–12. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q111013914.
- ^ John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 145. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ Richard B. Primack (July 1983). "Insect pollination in the New Zealand mountain flora". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 21 (3): 317–333. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1983.10428561. ISSN 0028-825X. Wikidata Q54669862.