Batrachedra tristicta
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Batrachedridae |
| Genus: | Batrachedra |
| Species: | B. tristicta
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Batrachedra tristicta is a species of moth in the family Batrachedridae. It is endemic to New Zealand.
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
The adults of this species are on the wing in March.[4]
Host species
The larvae feed on the flowers andseed heads of rushes including wiwi (Juncus edgariae) and soft rush.[7][8][9]
References
- ^ a b "Batrachedra tristicta Meyrick, 1901". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 304. OCLC 25449322.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume two. Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 457. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
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- ^ Macfarlane, R. M.; Johns, P. M.; Patrick, B. H.; Vink, Cor J. (April 1998). "Travis Marsh: invertebrate inventory and analysis".
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