Mnesictena pantheropa is a moth in the family Crambidae.[1] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1884. It is endemic to New Zealand,[2] where it has been recorded from the Chatham Islands.[3][4]
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| Mnesictena pantheropa seen in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Mnesictena |
| Species: | M. pantheropa
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| Mnesictena pantheropa | |
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The wingspan is 25–26 mm. The forewings are orange, variably mixed with reddish-fuscous or dark fuscous, especially on the veins and some specimens are wholly suffused with fuscous. The extreme costal edge is sometimes whitish in the middle. The markings are reddish-brown, mixed or suffused with dark grey and there is a suffusion along the basal part of the costa, sometimes extending basally to the dorsum. The first line is irregularly curved and the second denticulate, forming a strong subquadrate loop inwards below the middle, the space between them wholly suffused with dark except along the costa and on a band preceding the upper half of the second line. Sometimes, there is a sharply defined irregular transverse or rhomboidal clear white discal spot at the middle. There is a moderate terminal fascia, suffusedly projecting inwards opposite the loop of the second line. The hindwings are whitish-yellowish, becoming whitish towards the costa. The dorsal area is suffused with grey and there are two dark grey discal dots very obliquely placed. Sometimes, there is a grey postmedian line. The terminal fascia is suffused dark grey, sometimes very narrow or obsolete except at the apex and there is a terminal series of dark grey dots.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Mnesictena pantheropa (Meyrick, 1902)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ 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. 458. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
- ^ Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 153. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ^ Meyrick, Edward (1902-11-01). "XV. Lepidoptera from the Chatham Islands". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 50 (3): 273–280. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1902.tb02389.x. ISSN 1365-2311 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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