Glyphipterix metasticta
| Glyphipterix metasticta | |
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| Illustration of male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Glyphipterigidae |
| Genus: | Glyphipterix |
| Species: | G. metasticta |
| Binomial name | |
| Glyphipterix metasticta Meyrick, 1907 | |
Glyphipterix metasticta is a species of sedge moth in the genus Glyphipterix. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907.[1] In 1928, in his book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, George Hudsondiscussed and illustrated this species.[2] The male lectotype specimen, collected in Invercargill by Alfred Philpott, is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[3]
Description
Meyrick described this species as follows:
♂♀. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax bronzy - fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, with ctwo rings on second joint, and two rings and an anterior streak on apical portion of terminal joint blackish. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked ; in ♂ ochreous-fuscous, sometimes partly suffused with bronzy-ochreous, in ♀ dark fuscous with a cloudy whitish streak along dorsum and posterior half obscurely marked with undefined whitish strigulae, partly edged with blackish ; second discal stigma round, blackish, sometimes with a smaller similar dot before and above it ; two or three short whitish strigulae from costa posteriorly, in ♂ very undefined, in ♀ longer and blackish-edged : cilia fuscous, on termen white with a blackish basal line. Hindwings and cilia rather dark grey, darker in ♀.[1]
Distribution
This species has been observed in the type locality Invercargill, and in Otago.[1][4]
Behaviour
Adults of the species are on the wing from October until February.[2]
Habitat
This species inhabits marshy locations near the seashore.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 Edward Meyrick (June 1907). "Notes and descriptions of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 39: 119–120. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q110404133. BHL page 9975204
- 1 2 3 Hudson, G. V. (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 312, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286 BHL page 61899924
- ↑ "Species of New Zealand". Archived from the original on 2010-05-18. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- ↑ "Glyphipterix metasticta". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2026-05-18.