Mallobathra abyssina

Mallobathra abyssina is a moth of the family Psychidae.[1][2] This species is endemic to New Zealand.

Mallobathra abyssina
Male holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Psychidae
Genus: Mallobathra
Species:
M. abyssina
Binomial name
Mallobathra abyssina
(Clarke, 1934)[1]
Synonyms
  • Sabathinca abyssina Clarke, 1934

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Charles Edwin Clarke in 1934 using a male specimen collected by himself at Franz Joseph Glacier in January and named Sabathinca abyssina.[3] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale placed this species within the genus Mallobathra.[2] George Hudson described the species in his 1939 publication A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] The holotype specimen is held at Auckland Museum.[2]

Description

Clarke described the adult of this species as follows:

♂ 12 mm. Head and thorax aeneous. Antennae dark fuscous, base aeneous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Forewing ovate, rather blunted at apex; very pale aeneous with fasciae of dark purple; an irroration of purple dots on base to ⅓ of costa, where a wide outwardly oblique fascia of dark irrorated purple crosses to dorsum, another sub-parallel at beyond ½, and another also sub-parallel, more or less bifurcated, towards apex, some loose irroration between fascias, of purple dots. Cilia ochreous-aeneous. Hindwings dark purplish grey. Cilia pale ochreous-aeneous.[3]

Distribution

Franz Josef Glacier, habitat of M. abyssina

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] The holotype specimen was collected on rocks on the north eastern side of Franz Josef Glacier.[3]

References

  1. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 463. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  2. 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: 69. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. Charles E. Clarke (May 1934). "Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 64: 15. ISSN 1176-6166. Wikidata Q110090429.
  4. George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington, p. 471, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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