Gadira_(moth)
Gadira (moth)
Genus of moths
Gadira is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.[1] This genus is endemic to New Zealand.[1]
| Gadira | |
|---|---|
| Gadira acerella male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Crambinae |
| Tribe: | Chiloini |
| Genus: | Gadira Walker, 1866[1] |
| Type species | |
| Gadira acerella Walker, 1866 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1866 and named Gadira.[3] The type species of this genus is Gadira acerella by original monotypy.[2]
Walker originally described this genus as follows:
Female. Body rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, broad, obtuse, thickly clothed with short hairs beneath, shorter than the breadth of the head; third joint very minute. Antennae slender. Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs rather long, moderately stout; spurs long, slender. Wings long. Fore wings narrow, hardly acute; costa hardly convex; exterior border slightly convex, very oblique.[3]
The species found in this genus are:[4]
- Gadira acerella Walker, 1866
- Gadira leucophthalma (Meyrick, 1882)
- Gadira petraula (Meyrick, 1882)
- "Gadira Walker, 1866 - Biota of NZ". biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
- John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 144. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- Francis Walker (1866), List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXXV. - supplement, part 5., London, p. 1742, Wikidata Q115099201
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