Anarsia dryinopa

Anarsia dryinopa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Anarsia
Species:	A. dryinopa
Binomial name
Anarsia dryinopa Lower, 1897[1]
Synonyms[1]
Anarsia trichodeta Meyrick, 1904 Izatha griseata Hudson, 1939

Anarsia dryinopa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae.[1] This species was first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1897. It is native to Australia and was introduced to New Zealand where it can be found in both the North and the South Islands.

Taxonomy

Holotype specimen of Izatha griseata

This species was first described in 1897 by Oswald Bertram Lower using a specimen collected at Broken Hill in New South Wales in June.[2] In 1904 Edward Meyrick, thinking he was describing a new species named this species Anarsia trichodeta.[3] This was synonymised by E. D. Edwards in 1996.[4] In 1939 George Hudson described this species as Izatha griseata.[5] In 2010 Robert Hoare synonymised Izatha griseata with this species.[1]

Description

The wingspan is 14–17 mm (0.55–0.67 in). The forewings are rather dark fuscous, irregularly irrorated (speckled) with white and with several small undefined dark spots on the costa. There are numerous scattered undefined dots and dashes of black scales irrorated with whitish. The hindwings are fuscous, thinly scaled and semitransparent towards base, darker posteriorly.[6]

Distribution

This species is native to Australia.[1] It has been introduced to New Zealand and has been observed in the Northland, Auckland and Nelson regions.[1]

Host species

The larvae have been recorded feeding on the phyllodes and in galls on Acacia species in Australia, and in New Zealand they have been reared from the foliage of Acacia longifolia, Acacia melanoxylon and Albizzia julibrissin.[1]

References

1. Robert Hoare (2 September 2010). "Izatha (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Oecophoridae)" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 65. Illustrator: Birgit E. Rhode. Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research: 89. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.65. ISSN 0111-5383. OCLC 698473812. Wikidata Q44975107. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2021.
2. Oswald Lower (6 April 1897). "Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 21: 57. ISSN 0372-1426. Wikidata Q104889230.
3. E. Meyrick (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29: 415–416. doi:10.5962/BHL.PART.20163. ISSN 0370-047X. Wikidata Q56011198.
4. Edwards, E. D. 1996: Gelechiidae. Pp. 107–114 in Nielsen, E. S.; Edwards, E. D.; Rangsi, T. V. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 4. CSIRO Publishing. 529 pp.
5. George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 448, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
6. E. Meyrick (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29: 416–417. doi:10.5962/BHL.PART.20163. ISSN 0370-047X. Wikidata Q56011198. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.