Tingena hemimochla is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in the North Island. Adults of this species are on the wing from December until March.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Tingena |
| Species: | T. hemimochla
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Taxonomy
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This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1883 using specimens collected at Hamilton, Wellington and Napier in January and March.[3] He originally named the species Oecophora hemimochla.[3] Meyrick went on to give a fuller description of the species in 1884.[4] In 1915 Meyrick placed this species within the Borkhausenia genus.[5] In 1926 Alfred Philpott studied the genitalia of the female of this species.[6] George Hudson discussed this species under the name B. hemimochla in his 1928 publication The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[7] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Tingena.[2] The male lectotype, collected at the Wellington Botanic Garden, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2] In 2004 the phylogenetic relationship of this species to similar species was studied.[8]
Description
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Meyrick originally described this species as follows:
Fore wings whitish, irrorated with grey, an oblique mark beneath fold, two discal dots, a bar from anal angle, and sub-apical spot blackish ; hind wings whitish-grey ; head ochreous-white.[3]
Meyrick in 1884 described this species as follows:
Male, female. — 14+1⁄2—16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi ochreous-whitish, basal 2⁄3 of second joint, and base and apex of terminal joint suffused with dark fuscous. Antennas grey. Thorax ochreous-whitish, more or less mixed with grey. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Anterior and middle legs dark fuscous, central ring of middle tibiae, and apex of all joints ochreous-whitish ; posterior legs ochreous-whitish. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded'; white, irregularly suffused with whitish-ochreous, and sprinkled with grey and a few blackish scales ; costal edge dark fuscous at base ; an oblique dark fuscous streak from fold before middle to near inner margin before 1⁄3, generally distinct on fold only ; a blackish dot in disc before middle, and a larger one beyond middle, sometimes connected with apex of oblique streak by a cloudy dark fuscous line ; a cloudy dark fuscous bar extending from anal angle almost or quite to second discal dot ; a cloudy dark fuscous apical spot, suffusedly produced along hindmargin ; sometimes a curved transverse cloudy dark fuscous line near hindmargin, indented inwards beneath costa, often obsolete : cilia whitish, with rows of dark fuscous points, forming a cloudy spot at apex and anal angle. Hindwings whitish-grey or light grey ; cilia grey- whitish.[4]
Distribution
editThis species is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed near Lake Ohia, Pairatahi, Hamilton, Cambridge, Wellington and Napier.[9][1][7]
Behaviour
editThe adults of this species are on the wing from December until March.[7]
References
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- ^ a b Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ a b c d 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: 102. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ a b c Edward Meyrick (September 1883). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera.—III.—Oecophoridae". New Zealand Journal of Science. 1: 524. Wikidata Q106368126.
- ^ a b Edward Meyrick (1884). "Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. III. Oecophoridae". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 16: 38. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63976486.
- ^ E. Meyrick (12 July 1915). "Revision of New Zealand Tineina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 213. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q63123349.
- ^ Alfred Philpott (1926). "List of New Zealand species of Borkhausenia (Oecophoridae: Lepidoptera), including new species". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 399–413. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110157185.
- ^ a b c George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 270, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
- ^ Kaila, Lauri (August 2004). "Phylogeny of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an exemplar approach". Cladistics. 20 (4): 303–340. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00027.x. ISSN 0748-3007. PMID 34892939. S2CID 86113904.
- ^ R. J. B. Hoare (February 2011). "Lepidoptera of gumland heaths — a threatened and rare ecosystem of northern New Zealand" (PDF). New Zealand Entomologist. 34 (1): 67–76. doi:10.1080/00779962.2011.9722212. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q54578051.