Mnesictena flavidalis

Mnesictena flavidalis is a moth in the family Crambidae.[3][4] It was described by Edward Doubleday in 1843.[5] It is endemic to New Zealand.[6]

Mnesictena flavidalis
Female
Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Spilomelinae
Tribe: Udeini
Genus: Mnesictena
Species:
M. flavidalis
Binomial name
Mnesictena flavidalis
(Doubleday, 1843)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Margaritia flavidalis Doubleday, 1843
  • Udea flavidalis (Doubleday, 1843)
  • Margaritia quadralis Doubleday, 1843
  • Scopula dipsasalis Walker, 1859

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Doubleday in Ernst Dieffenbach's book Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of the country and named Margaritia flavidalis.[5] In 1899 Hampson placed this species in the genus Mnesictena.[7] In 1983 G. E. Munroe synonymised the genus Mnesictena with Udea.[8] However in 1988 John S. Dugdale treated Mnesictena as a valid genus.[2] Dugdale's treatment was followed in 2011 by Richard Mally and Matthias Nuss.[1] The male holotype specimen, collected in Auckland by A. Sinclair, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Doubleday described this species as follows:

All the wings ochraceous, the outer margins with a series of minute dots. Anterior wings with a faint striga near the base, a still fainter one near the middle, and a more distinct much-waved one near the outer margin, and two discoidal stigmatiform spots fuscous. Posterior wings with a discoidal spot, preceded towards the anterior margin by a smaller one, a transverse striga beyond the middle, and the anal angle fuscous.[5]

References
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  1. Richard Mally; Matthias Nuss (2011). "Molecular and morphological phylogeny of European Udea moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 69 (1): 55–71. ISSN 1863-7221. Wikidata Q113549443.
  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: 153. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume two. Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 458. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
  4. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  5. Dieffenbach, E. (1843). "List of Annulose Animals hitherto recorded as found in New Zealand with descriptions of some new species by Messrs. Adam White and Edward Doubleday.". Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of the country. Vol. 2. London: John Murray. p. 287.
  6. "Udea flavidalis (Doubleday, 1843)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  7. George Francis Hampson (1899). "A revision of the moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and family Pyralidae (Part II)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 172–291. ISSN 0370-2774. Wikidata Q113549142.
  8. Hodges, Ronald W. (1983). Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico : including Greenland. London: E.W. Classey. p. 72. ISBN 0-86096-016-1. OCLC 9748761.


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