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Species of moth

Bityla defigurata
Female
Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Bityla
Species: B. defigurata
Binomial name
Bityla defigurata
(Walker, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Xylina defigurata Walker, 1865
  • Bityla thoracica Walker, 1865

Bityla defigurata is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1865 using specimens collected by T. R. Oxley in Nelson and originally named Xylina defigurata. Edward Meyrick placed this species in the genus Bityla and synonymised Bityla thoracica with this species. The female holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Description

Walker described this species as follows:

Female. Cinereous-brown. Head and fore tegulae of the thorax dark brown. Palpi dull ochraceous, fringed beneath, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex; second joint mostly black on the outer side; third elongate-conical, about one-third of the length of the second. Abdomen brownish-cinereous, extending rather beyond, the hind wings; apical tuft ochraceous. Wings shining, tinged with aeneous. Fore wings with some indistinct brown lines composed of lunules; orbicular and reniform marks indistinctly brown-bordered. Hind wings a little more cinereous than the fore wings. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 22 lines.

Distribution

It is endemic to New Zealand and found in both the North and South Islands.

Behaviour

The adults of this species are on the wing from January to March and is attracted to light.

Host species

The larvae of this species have been reared on Muehlenbeckia australis and Muehlenbeckia complexa.

References

  1. ^ "Bityla defigurata (Walker, 1865)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  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: 195. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. ^ Francis Walker (1865), List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIII. - supplement, part 3., London, pp. 707–1120, Wikidata Q113265208{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. Edward Meyrick (1887). "Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 19: 31. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q104048034.
  5. ^ George Vernon Hudson (1898), New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera), Illustrator: George Hudson, London, p. 29, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.7912, OCLC 980865393, Wikidata Q19073637{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. "PlantSynz - Invertebrate herbivore biodiversity assessment tool: Database". plant-synz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
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Bityla defigurata


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