Tingena serena is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae.[2] It is endemic to New Zealand and has been observed in Southland and Dunedin. The adults of this species are on the wing in December and January.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Tingena |
| Species: | T. serena
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Taxonomy edit
This species was first described by Alfred Philpott using specimens collected in bush on a hillside in January at Waiau River at Sunnyside in Southland.[3] Philpott originally named the species Borkhausenia serena.[3] In that publication Philpott also studied and illustrated the genitalia of the male of this species.[3] George Hudson discussed this species in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand under that name.[4] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale synonymised B. comosaris with B. serena and then placed B. serena in the genus Tingena.[2] The male holotype specimen is held in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.[2]
Description edit
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Philpott described this species as follows:
♂ ♀. 13–15 mm. Head and palpi whitish-ochreous mixed with brown. Antennae brown annulated with ochreous, ciliations in male ½. Thorax brown, apices of tegulae pale ochreous. Abdomen grey annulated with brown. Legs ochreous, more or less infuscated. Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen very oblique, whitish-ochreous; costa rather broadly brown on basal ⅓; an irregular brown irroration all over wing, usually obsolete on dorsal region at base and beneath and following brown costal basal area; this brown irroration tends to form a spot above dorsum at before ½ and an inwardly-oblique striga from tornus; an angled subterminal brown line faintly indicated: fringes pale ochreous with several rows of dark points. Hindwings greyish-fuscous: fringes grey with an obscure darker basal line.[3]
Distribution edit
This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] This species has been observed in Southland and Dunedin.[3][5]
Behaviour edit
The adults of this species is on the wing in December and January.[3][5]
References edit
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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: 105. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ a b c d e f Alfred Philpott (1926). "List of New Zealand species of Borkhausenia (Oecophoridae: Lepidoptera), including new species". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 403. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110157185.
- ^ George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 265, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
- ^ a b "Tingena serena". Auckland Museum Collections Online. 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.