Austramathes pessota
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Austramathes pessota is a species of moth in the Noctuidae family.[1] It is endemic to New Zealand.[2]
Taxonomy
A. pessota was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1887 under the name Miselia pessota.[3] In 1906 this species was tentatively placed in the Sympistis genus by Hampson.[4] Meyrick, in 1911, disagreed with this placement but somewhat doubtfully suggested placing the species in the Hypnotype genus.[5] Meyrick again reconsidered the taxonomy of this species in 1914 and placed it within the Andesia genus.[6] Robert J. B. Hoare studied the species and placed it within the Austramathes genus in 2017.[1]
Description
George Hudson described the species as follows:
The expansion of the wings is 1 inch. The fore-wings are dull purplish-brown ; there is an oblong black mark at the base of the dorsum containing a slender curved white line ; the orbicular is rather small, round, margined first with dull white and then with black ; the reniform is large, oblong, dull white, margined with pale ochreous towards the base of the wing ; there is a conspicuous oblong black mark between the orbicular and reniform stigmata. The hind-wings are dull grey, with the cilia paler.[7]
Distribution
A. pessota can be found in Northland, in the southern North Island and in the South Island, mainly on the eastern side that island.[1]
Host species
Larvae of this species feed on Melicytus alpinus and Hoare states it is likely that Melicytus micranthus is also a host.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Hoare, R.J.B. (23 June 2017). "Noctuinae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Part 1, Austramathes, Cosmodes, Proteuxoa, Physetica" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 73: 1–130. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.73.
- ^ "Austramathes pessota (Meyrick, 1887)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Meyrick, Edward (1887). "Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 19: 3–40 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Hampson, George Francis (1906). "Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the collection of the British Museum". Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British museum. 6: 1–532 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Meyrick, Edward (1912). "A revision of the classification of the New Zealand Caradrinina". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 44: 88–107 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Meyrick, Edward (1914). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 46: 101–118 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Hudson, George Vernon (1898). New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera). London: West, Newman & co. p. 6. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera), by George Vernon Hudson (1898)
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