Culladia strophaea
male
female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Culladia
Species:
C. strophaea
Binomial name
Culladia strophaea
(Meyrick, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Argyria strophaea Meyrick, 1905
  • Metasia strophaea (Meyrick, 1905)

Culladia strophaea is a species of moth in the family Crambidae.[1] It is endemic to New Zealand.[1][2] The taxonomy of this species is currently uncertain.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1905 as Argyria strophaea using specimens collected in Wellington by George Hudson.[3][4] Hudson discussed and illustrated the species under this name in his 1928 book The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand.[5] The lectotype of this species is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[4]

In 1973 D. E. Gaskin placed A. strophaea within the genus Culladia.[6] This placement is currently under debate and is regarded by some scientists as erroneous.[7] As a result, this species is also referred to as Argyria (s.l.) strophaea or alternatively by its original name despite the later also being regarded as erroneous.[8][9]

Description

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂︎♀︎. 15-18 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish, partially yellowish-tinged, and sprinkled with dark grey. Palpi 4, grey, darker-sprinkled, whitish above and towards base beneath. Antennae ochreous-whitish, obscurely ringed with dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish irrorated with dark grey. Fore-wings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, oblique, faintly waved ; pale brassy-ochreous, suffusedly mixed with white, and irrorated with dark grey ; subbasal line white, edged anteriorly with dark fuscous, angulated near costa, obsolete towards dorsum ; first and second lines white, more or less edged with dark fuscous, first obtusely angulated above middle, second sinuate inwards towards dorsum, preceded on costa by a small dark fuscous spot ; a small roundish dark fuscous spot in disc before middle ; a narrow white transverse mark in disc beyond middle; a terminal series of dark fuscous lunulate marks: cilia whitish, with a fuscous subapical Hue, basal half barred with fuscous. Hind-wings grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia as in fore-wings.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1][8] This species can be found in the North Island as well as in the provinces of Nelson and Westland in the South Island.[6] Other than the type locality of Wellington, this species has also been found at Whakarewarewa, Raurimu, Whanganui,[5] Haruru falls in the Bay of Islands, Lake Taupō, Bluff Hill in Napier, and at Lake Rotorua.[6]

Biology and behaviour

Larvae of this species have been found in soil.[10] This species is on the wing in January.[5] Specimens of this species have been collected with mercury vapour light traps and 15watt UV light traps.[11][10] Alfred Philpott studied the male genitalia of this species in 1929.[12]

Host species and habitat

It frequents stony cuttings, often by roadsides, near forest habitat.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Culladia strophaea Meyrick, 1905". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  2. ↑ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  3. 1 2 Meyrick, Edward (1905). "Notes on New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1905 (2): 219–244. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1905.tb02451.x – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. 1 2 Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 1–262. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-01-27. Retrieved 2017-10-16 – via Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 170. OCLC 25449322.
  6. 1 2 3 Gaskin, D.E. (1973). "Revision of New Zealand Chilonini (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and redescription of some Australian species". New Zealand Journal of Science. 16: 435–463.
  7. ↑ Hoare, Robert J. B. (2001-12-01). "Adventive species of Lepidoptera recorded for the first time in New Zealand since 1988". New Zealand Entomologist. 24 (1): 23–47. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.568.2484. doi:10.1080/00779962.2001.9722079. ISSN 0077-9962. S2CID 85142137.
  8. 1 2 Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 458. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  9. ↑ "Introduction to Pyraloidea families and subfamilies of New Zealand". www.landcareresearch.co.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Archived from the original on 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  10. 1 2 K., Curtis; H., Bowie, Michael; S., Barber, Keith; Stephane, Boyer; M., Marris, John W.; B., Patrick (2016). Assessing the invertebrate fauna trajectories in remediation sites of Winstone Aggregates Hunua quarry in Auckland. Christchurch: Lincoln University. p. 46. hdl:10182/7684. ISBN 978-0-86476-417-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Bennik, Rebecca Marie (2014). "Sexual conflict and genital evolution in moths" (PDF). researchspace.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  12. ↑ Philpott, A. (1929). "The Male Genitalia of the New Zealand Crambidae". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 60: 497. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
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