Trachypepla roseata

Trachypepla roseata
Male holotype

Data Deficient (NZ TCS)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Trachypepla
Species:
T. roseata
Binomial name
Trachypepla roseata
Philpott, 1923

Trachypepla roseata is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. This species is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the Nelson and Tasman regions of the South Island. It frequents forest habitat and is on the wing in January. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.

Taxonomy

It was described by Alfred Philpott in 1923 using a specimen he collected at the Dun Mountain in Nelson in January.[2] George Hudson had previously discovered the species in Tākaka.[2] Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand.[3] The holotype is held at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[4]

Description

Illustration of female

Philpott described the species as follows:

♂ 13 mm. Head white mixed with brown. Palpi whitish, second segment outwardly mixed with brownish-black, terminal segment with a subapical ring and some scattered scales brownish-black. Antennae brown, ciliations 1. Thorax brown mixed with white. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Legs ochreous, tarsi banded with fuscous. Forewings moderate, apex rounded, termen oblique; greyish-brown sprinkled with dark fuscous; a small black blotch on costa at base followed by a whitish area slightly tinged with ochreous; two tufts of rosy-pink scales at about 1⁄4, the second obliquely above the first; a broad whitish band, enclosing some fuscous colouring, from costa at 2⁄5 to dorsum at 1⁄3, strongly excurved; second line thin, sharply angulated outwards beneath costa, white, anteriorly margined with black on lower 2⁄3: cilia fuscous mixed with white. Hindwings greyish-fuscous: cilia greyish-fuscous, tips whitish.[2]

Distribution

Dun mountain, type locality.

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[5][6] This species has been collected at its type locality of the Dun Mountain at a height of approximately 600 m above sea-level, at Tākaka and at Wairoa Gorge, all in the Nelson and Tasman areas.[2][7]

Biology and behaviour

The adults of this species are on the wing in January.[3]

Habitat

This species frequents forest habitat.[3]

Conservation status

This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b 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: 5.
  2. ^ a b c d Philpott, Alfred (1923). "Notes and descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 54: 148–154 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. ^ a b c Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn Ltd. p. 285. OCLC 25449322.
  4. ^ Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 59. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Trachypepla roseata Philpott, 1923". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2018-06-03.
  6. ^ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  7. ^ "NZTCS Lepidoptera Spreadsheet". www.doc.govt.nz. Retrieved 3 June 2018.