Batrachedra tristicta

Batrachedra tristicta is a species of moth in the family Batrachedridae. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Batrachedra tristicta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Batrachedridae
Genus: Batrachedra
Species:
B. tristicta
Binomial name
Batrachedra tristicta
Synonyms[2]
  • Batrachedra tristictica (Meyrick, 1901)

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1901 using material collected at Makatoku, in the Hawkes Bay, in March.[3] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species both in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand and his 1939 supplement to that work.[4][5] The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Meyrick described B. tristicta as follows:

♂︎♀︎. 10-11 m.m. Head, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs fuscous-whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint with short scale-projection, subbasal and subapical spots of second joint, and basal and subapical spots of terminal dark fuscous. Fore wings whitish, irrorated with fuscous and sprinkled with dark fuscous ; first and second discal stigmata elongate, black, first somewhat before middle ; a round black apical dot : cilia very pale whitish-fuscous. Hind-wings grey ; cilia pale whitish-fuscous.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1][6] Along with the type locality in the Hawkes Bay, this species has also been collected in Fiordland.[5]

Biology and behaviour
Juncus edgariae

The adults of this species are on the wing in March.[4]

Host species

The larvae feed on the flowers and seed heads of rushes including wiwi (Juncus edgariae) and soft rush (Juncus effusus).[7][8][9]

References
  1. "Batrachedra tristicta Meyrick, 1901". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  2. Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 1–264. ISBN 0-477-02518-8. ISSN 0111-5383 – via Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
  3. Meyrick, Edward (1901). "XVII. Descriptions of New Lepidoptera from New Zealand". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 49 (4): 565–580. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1901.tb01373.x. ISSN 1365-2311 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 304. OCLC 25449322.
  5. Hudson, G. V. (1939). A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 442. OCLC 221041540. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  6. 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.
  7. "PlantSynz - Invertebrate herbivore biodiversity assessment tool". plant-synz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
  8. White, E.G. (1991). "The changing abundance of moths in a tussock grassland, 1962-1989, and 50- to 70-year trends" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 15 (1): 5–22.
  9. Macfarlane, R. M.; Johns, P. M.; Patrick, B. H.; Vink, Cor J. (April 1998). "Travis Marsh: invertebrate inventory and analysis". hdl:10182/4155. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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