Eudonia alopecias
Male lectotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Eudonia
Species:
E. alopecias
Binomial name
Eudonia alopecias
(Meyrick, 1901)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Scoparia alopecias Meyrick, 1901

Eudonia alopecias is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1901. It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found at Aoraki / Mount Cook in February.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1901 using specimens collected at Aoraki / Mount Cook in February by R. W. Fereday and named Scoparia alopecias.[3][2] Hudson discussed this species in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] In 1988 John S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Eudonia.[2] The male lectotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]

Description

Meyrick described the species as follows:

♂ 23 m.m., ♀ 18 m.m. Head, palpi, and thorax ferruginous-brown ; palpi 2+1⁄2-3, white towards base beneath. Antennal ciliations of ♂ 1⁄3. Abdomen brownish. Forewings elongate, gradually dilated, costa nearly straight, slightly sinuate, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, rather oblique ; ferruginous-brown, in ♂ sprinkled with white towards termen : cilia greyish-ochreous, with two cloudy ferruginous-brown shades. Hindwings 1+1⁄4, in ♂ very pale whitish-fuscous, slightly brassy-tinged, termen suffused with fuscous, in ♀ fuscous, becoming darker posteriorly ; cilia fuscous-whitish, in ♀ fuscous at base.[3]

Distribution

Aoraki Mount Cook, type locality of E. alopecias.

This species is endemic to New Zealand and is found at Mount Cook.[1]

Behaviour

Adults have been recorded on wing in February.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "NZOR Name Details - Eudonia alopecias (Meyrick, 1901)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-08-01.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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: 154. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. 1 2 Edward Meyrick (December 1901). "XVII. Descriptions of New Lepidoptera from New Zealand". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 49 (4): 570. doi:10.1111/J.1365-2311.1901.TB01373.X. ISSN 0035-8894. Wikidata Q56158899.
  4. 1 2 George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 196, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
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