Ectopatria aspera
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Ectopatria |
| Species: | E. aspera |
| Binomial name | |
| Ectopatria aspera (Walker, 1857) | |
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Ectopatria aspera is a moth of the family Noctuidae.[1] It is found in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and New Zealand. It is considered a migratory species.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1857 and originally named Hadena aspera.[2] George Hudson described and illustrated this species under the name E. aspera in his 1939 book A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[3] The holotype specimen of E. aspera is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[2] The holotype specimen of the now synonymised Xylina saxatilis is held at Museums Victoria.[4]
Description
Hudson described this species as follows:
The expansion of the wings is 1+1⁄2 inches (36-38 mm.) The forewings are dull bluish-grey, very faintly and sparsely speckled with white; the basal and first lines are very indistinct; the orbicular is small oval; the claviform elongate, both indistinct; the reniform faintly outlined in blackish, its lower portion somewhat dilated; second line, obscure, dentate, with a few of the dentations faintly marked in blackish; a pale wavy subterminal line; veins 4, 5 and 6 finely marked in black between second and subterminal lines; a series of black terminal dots; the cilia are whitish, broadly barred with blackish-grey. The hind-wings are pale grey, becoming dark grey on apex and termen in male, wholly dark-grey in female; the cilia are white, with a dusky line.[3]
Alfred Philpott described the species as follows:
The forewings and thorax are whitish-grey. The hindwings are white with a broad fuscous area around the apex and termen in males and wholly fuscous in females. Males have a dense truncate tuft of hair on the middle tibia.[5]
Distribution
This species is found in Australia in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and in New Zealand.[6][7]
Behaviour
This species is considered a migratory species.[7]
References
- ↑ "Ectopatria aspera (Walker, 1857)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-05-14.
- 1 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: 212. doi:10.7931/j2/fnz.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- 1 2 Hudson, G. V. (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 392, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
- ↑ Atlas of Living Australia (2023). "Species: Ectopatria aspera". bie.ala.org.au. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ↑ Philpott, Alfred (1928). "Notes and Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 59: 481–490.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ "Ectopatria aspera". lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au. Retrieved 2026-06-03.
- 1 2 K. J. Fox (January 1971). "MIGRANT LEPIDOPTERA IN NEW ZEALAND 1970 - 1971". New Zealand Entomologist. 5 (1): 61. doi:10.1080/00779962.1971.9722959. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q105726750.