Gymnobathra_zephyrana
Tinea belonota
Species of moth
Tinea belonota is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as not threatened by the Department of Conservation.
| Tinea belonota | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Genus: | Tinea |
| Species: | T. belonota |
| Binomial name | |
| Tinea belonota | |
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It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1888 using a specimen collected in Palmerston North in March.[3][2] This holotype specimen has not been found at the Natural History Museum, London. In 1926 Charles E. Clarke, thinking he was describing a new species, gave this moth the name Gymnobathra zephyrana.[4] Alfred Philpott synonymised this name in 1931.[5] The specimen Clarke used for this description was collected in Whangarei and is now held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[2] The placement of this species within the genus Tinea is in doubt.[1] As a result, this species is also known as Tinea (s.l.) belonota.[6]
Meyrick described this species as follows:
Male. — 13 mm. Head whitish-fuscous. Palpi fuscous, base and apex ochreous-whitish. Antennae, thorax, and abdomen fuscous ; antennal ciliations 3. Legs dark fuscous, apex of joints ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa gently arched, apex rouud-pointed, hindmargin straight, very oblique ; rather dark fuscous ; a tolerably well-defined ochreous-whitish streak along fold from base to anal angle, upper margin with a slight projection before and a stronger one beyond middle, between which is a small dark fuscous spot : cilia rather dark fuscous, purple- shining, tips beneath apex and a small spot beneath anal angle ochreous-whitish. Hindwings with veins 5 and 6 separate; rather dark fuscous, purple-shining, lighter and thinly scaled towards base ; cilia fuscous.[3]
This species is visually similar to Trithamnora certella and Tinea mochlota but can be distinguished as T. belonota has broader wings, lacks discal spots, has a more obvious pale streak, and different cilia.[3]
This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1][6] It has been collected in Palmerston North, Whangarei and at Okauia in the Waikato.[5]
This species has been classified as being "not threatened" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.[7]
- "Tinea belonota Meyrick, 1888". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 65. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- Meyrick, Edward (1888). "Descriptions of New Zealand Tineina". Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 20: 77–106.
- Clarke, Charles E. (1926). "New species of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 417–421.
- Philpott, Alfred (1931). "Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 62: 26–36.
- Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume Two. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. p. 464. ISBN 9781877257933. OCLC 973607714.
- Hoare, R.J.B.; Dugdale, J.S.; Edwards, E.D.; Gibbs, G.W.; Patrick, B.H.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Rolfe, J.R. (2017). "Conservation status of New Zealand butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), 2015" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 20: 9.
