Holocola zopherana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Holocola |
| Species: | H. zopherana
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Holocola zopherana is a species of moth in the family Tortricidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1881.[1] This species is found in Australia and New Zealand. The larval hosts of this moth are Kunzea ericoides as well as species within the plant genus Leptospermum.
Taxonomy
[edit]This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1881 using four specimens collected in Sydney in December and named Strepsiceros zopherana.[4][2] George Hudson discussed this species both in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand as well as in the 1939 book A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, under the name Spilonota zopherana.[5][6] In 2010 the Inventory of New Zealand Biodiversity listed this species under the name Holocola parthenia.[1]
Description
[edit]Hudson described the larva and pupa of this species as follows:
The larva, which feeds on Manuka (Leptospermum) is slightly over 1⁄4 inch (8 mm.) in length. Cylindrical, stout, rapidly tapering towards posterior extremity; head and plate of segment 2 bright shining ochreous; rest of body ochreous with three rows of rather irregular crimson spots on dorsal area. Found early in December. Pupa enclosed in a rather thin silken cocoon. This insect passes the winter in the pupa state.
Meyrick originally described the adults of this species as follows:
♂ ♀ . 5"-6". Head, palpi, and thorax grey, more or less irrorated with white, head sometimes almost wholly white ; palpi not tufted. Antennae dark fuscous, in male somewhat thickened and notched at about one-eighth from basal joint. Abdomen dark grey, segmental margins silvery-whitish. Legs whitish, anterior and middle tibiae and all tarsi sharply banded with dark fuscous. Forewings very narrow, costa slightly arched, apex produced, hindmargin sinuate, very oblique ; dark grey, irrorated with whitish ; costa very obliquely strigulated with blackish-grey ; a rather broad ill-defined white streak beneath costa from base to apex, crossed by an oblique dark grey fascia-like streak before middle, and three or four slender dark grey very oblique strigulae between that and apex ; middle of disc somewhat suffused with, blackish ; an ill-defined black spot in disc above anal angle ; generally a row of about three ill-defined black spots above anal angle towards hindmargin, preceded and followed by an obscure silvery-metallic line : cilia dark grey, paler towards anal angle, with a blackish apical spot, costal cilia white. Hindwings thinly scaled, grey, darker at extremity ; cilia pale grey, with an indistinct darker line near base ; veins 3 and 4 coincident.[4]
This species can be distinguished from similar looking species by the white subcostal streak from base to apex, however the colouration of adult moths is variable.[4]
Distribution
[edit]This species is found both in Australia and New Zealand.[7][2]
Host species
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The larval hosts of this moth are Kunzea ericoides as well as species within the plant genus Leptospermum.[8]
References
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- ^ a b c Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 464. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ a b c 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: 116. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ "Holocola zopherana (Meyrick, 1881), Australian Faunal Directory". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
- ^ a b c E. Meyrick (1881). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 6: 688–689. doi:10.5962/BHL.PART.11888. ISSN 0370-047X. Wikidata Q56007561.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 246, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 436, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Holocola charopa (Meyrick, 1888)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-05-06.
- ^ J. G. Charles; J. S. Dugdale (February 2011). "Non-target species selection for host-range testing of Mastrus ridens". New Zealand Entomologist. 34 (1): 45–51. doi:10.1080/00779962.2011.9722208. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q54666011.
