Platyptilia campsiptera is a species of moth in the family Pterophoridae.[2] This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species has been classified as Nationally Vulnerable by the Department of Conservation.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Platyptilia |
| Species: | P. campsiptera
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Taxonomy edit
P. campsiptera was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907 from a specimen collected by George Vernon Hudson in the Humboldt Range at approximately 1100m.[3] In 1928 Hudson also described and illustrated the species.[4] The male holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[5]
Description edit
Meyrick described the species as follows:
♂︎ 17 mm. Head and thorax yellowish- white, metapleura with an oblique black streak, frontal cone of scales moderately long. Palpi 3+1⁄2, white, apical 2⁄3 externally irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale whitish-yellow, with a black lateral dot near base, and a few black lateral scales posteriorly. Legs white, banded with dark fuscous. Forewings cleft from 3⁄4, upper segment rather narrow, apex produced, pointed, lower segment much broader, posteriorly dilated ; whitish, tinged with pale yellow ; costa towards base shortly strigulated with fuscous irroration ; a small triangular fuscous spot irrorated with dark fuscous on costa before fissure, not reaching across first segment, and a smaller similar mark on costa between this and apex : cilia ochreous-whitish, spotted with fuscous round lower angle of first segment, and upper angle and termen of second, with a small black scale-tooth on dorsum at 2⁄3. Hindwings reddish-fuscous ; cilia whitish, slightly reddish-tinged, with a blackish basal mark on lower half of termen of first segment, and mere traces of black scales in middle of dorsum of third segment.[3]
Hudson noted that when resting P. campsiptera holds its forewing second digit downwards and almost at right angles to the first digit.[4]
Distribution edit
It is endemic to New Zealand.[6][2] As well as at its type locality, the species has been collected at Ben Lomond,[7] Andersons Bay[8] and Colac Bay.[9] It has also been collected at McKinnon Pass.[10]
Conservation status edit
This species has the "Nationally Vulnerable" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b R J B Hoare; J S Dugdale; E D Edwards; G W Gibbs; B H Patrick; R A Hitchmough; J R Rolfe (November 2017). Conservation status of New Zealand butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera), 2015 (PDF). Vol. 20. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-98-851438-3. ISSN 2324-1713. Wikidata Q105981227.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help) - ^ a b c Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 463. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ a b Edward Meyrick (June 1907). "Notes and descriptions of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 39: 112–113. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110404133.
- ^ a b George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, pp. 208), LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
- ^ John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 133. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ "Platyptilia campsiptera Meyrick, 1907". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12274". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12275". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12276". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 429, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935