Eudonia alopecias is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1901. It is endemic to New Zealand and has been found at Aoraki / Mount Cook in February.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Eudonia |
| Species: | E. alopecias
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| Eudonia alopecias | |
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Taxonomy edit
This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1901 using specimens collected at Aoraki / Mount Cook in February by R. W. Fereday and named Scoparia alopecias.[3][2] Hudson discussed this species in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] In 1988 John S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Eudonia.[2] The male lectotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2]
Description edit
Meyrick described the species as follows:
♂ 23 m.m., ♀ 18 m.m. Head, palpi, and thorax ferruginous-brown ; palpi 2+1⁄2-3, white towards base beneath. Antennal ciliations of ♂ 1⁄3. Abdomen brownish. Forewings elongate, gradually dilated, costa nearly straight, slightly sinuate, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate, rather oblique ; ferruginous-brown, in ♂ sprinkled with white towards termen : cilia greyish-ochreous, with two cloudy ferruginous-brown shades. Hindwings 1+1⁄4, in ♂ very pale whitish-fuscous, slightly brassy-tinged, termen suffused with fuscous, in ♀ fuscous, becoming darker posteriorly ; cilia fuscous-whitish, in ♀ fuscous at base.[3]
Distribution edit
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This species is endemic to New Zealand and is found at Mount Cook.[1]
Behaviour edit
Adults have been recorded on wing in February.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b "NZOR Name Details - Eudonia alopecias (Meyrick, 1901)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-08-01.
- ^ a b c d 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: 154. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ a b Edward Meyrick (December 1901). "XVII. Descriptions of New Lepidoptera from New Zealand". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 49 (4): 570. doi:10.1111/J.1365-2311.1901.TB01373.X. ISSN 0035-8894. Wikidata Q56158899.
- ^ a b George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 196, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286