Gadira (moth)

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]
Cryptomima Meyrick, 1882 Scenoploca Meyrick, 1882

Gadira is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.[1] This genus is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Taxonomy

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]

Description

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]

Species

The species found in this genus are:[4]

• Gadira acerella Walker, 1866
• Gadira leucophthalma (Meyrick, 1882)
• Gadira petraula (Meyrick, 1882)

References

1. "Gadira Walker, 1866 - Biota of NZ". biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
2. Dugdale , J. S. (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.
3. 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
4. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 457. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.