Mnesictena daiclesalis is a moth in the family Crambidae.[1] It was described by Francis Walker in 1859.[2][3] It is endemic to New Zealand.[4][5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Mnesictena |
| Species: | M. daiclesalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Mnesictena daiclesalis (Walker, 1859)
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The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are ferruginous brown, irrorated (sprinkled) with dark grey. The inner margin is rather broadly suffused with ochreous orange from the base to three-fourths and there is a narrow ochreous-orange streak along the costa from the base to three-fourths, enclosing a very slender snow-white costal streak from one-fourth to two-thirds. The lines are thick, cloudy, dark grey and very indistinctly defined. The reniform is obscurely outlined with dark grey. The hindwings are light ochreous yellowish with a dark-grey dot in the centre of the disc and partial indications of a slender greyish line at two-thirds.[6]
References edit
- ^ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 458. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ Walker, Francis (1859). "Pyralides". List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. pt. 19: 799–1036 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Dugdale, J. S. (1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 153 – via Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.
- ^ "Udea daiclesalis (Walker, 1859)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
- ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ^ Meyrick, Edward (1888). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 21: 154–188. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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