Atomotricha isogama

Atomotricha isogama is a moth in the family Oecophoridae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1909.[2][3] It is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Atomotricha isogama
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A. isogama
Binomial name
Atomotricha isogama
Meyrick, 1909[1]

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1909.[4]

Description

Meyrick first described this species as follows:

(♂♀. 23 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, in ♂ more brownish-tinged. Palpi whitish-ochreous, externally with a few scattered dark-fuscous scales. Antennae whitish-ochreous, obscurely ringed with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, in ♂ more brownish, dorsally suffused with brassy-golden except on margins of segments. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous, with a few scattered dark-fuscous scales, in ♂ mostly suffused with brownish except on dorsal streak ; a broad pale dorsal streak from base to tornus, upper edge prominent near base, where there is a tuft of scales, and about middle of dorsum ; some dark-fuscous suffusion extending above this streak from base to 35 of disc, and thence upwards to costa ; stigmata round, whitish-ochreous, edged with dark fuscous, plical obliquely beyond first discal ; an angulated dark-fuscous line or series of dots from a of costa to tornus : cilia ochreous-whitish, in 3- irrorated with grey, basal third barred with fuscous. Hind wings very pale whitish-ochreous ; a cloudy round fuscous discal spot ; apex and lower half of termen suffused with fuscous irroration ; cilia ochreous-whitish, round apex and on lower half of termen with a suffused fuscous shade.[4]

References

  1. "Atomotricha isogama Meyrick, 1909". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
  2. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  3. John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 90. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  4. Edward Meyrick (1909), Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera, vol. 41, pp. 13–14, Wikidata Q110207561


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