Mnesictena adversa
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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. adversa
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Mnesictena adversa is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Alfred Philpott in 1917 and is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy[edit]
This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1917 and named Mecyna adversa.[2] In 1988 J. S. Dugdale discussed this species under the name Mnesictena adversa.[1] In 2010 the publication The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity placed this species in the genus Udea and this placement has been followed by many New Zealand natural history institutions and collections.[3] However this placement has been brought into doubt by the work of Richard Mally and Matthias Nuss.[4]
Description[edit]
The wingspan is 20–21 mm for males and females. The forewings are ferruginous, but brighter along the costa. There is an irregular transverse outwardly-oblique white discal dot at the middle and a dark, obscurely indicated second line. The hindwings are yellow with the discal dot and terminal band fuscous.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c 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: 153. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ a b Alfred Philpott (1917). "Art. XIII. - Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 49: 243. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q108312592.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mally, Richard; Nuss, Matthias (2011). "Molecular and morphological phylogeny of European Udea moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)" (PDF). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 69 (1): 55–71.
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