Mnesictena notata is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1879. 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 |
| Genus: | Mnesictena |
| Species: | M. notata
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| Binomial name | |
| Mnesictena notata (Butler, 1879)
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Taxonomy
editThis species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1879 and named Scopula notata.[1] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale discussed this species under the name Mnesictena notata.[2] In 2010 the publication The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity placed this species in the genus Udea.[3][4] However this placement was brought into doubt by the work of Richard Mally and Matthias Nuss.[5]
Description
editThe forewings are reddish clay coloured, slightly sericeous (silky). The discoidal area is dusky and there is a black-edged white rhomboidal spot at the end of the cell, as well as a grey discal line, arched beyond the cell and with a zigzag course from the first median branch to the inner margin. The hindwings are pale creamy ochreous, speckled at the apex and on the basal area with grey scales. Two black spots are placed obliquely at the end of the cell and there is a marginal series of black dots.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Arthur Gardiner Butler (1879). "On a small collection of Heterocerous Lepidoptera, from New Zealand". Cistula entomologica. 2: 493. Wikidata Q104215588.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ 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: 153. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 458. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ "Udea notata (Butler, 1879)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ Léger, Théo; Mally, Richard; Neinhuis, Christoph; Nuss, Matthias (2020-10-22). "Refining the phylogeny of Crambidae with complete sampling of subfamilies (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea)". Zoologica Scripta. 50 (1): 84–99. doi:10.1111/zsc.12452. ISSN 0300-3256.
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