Leptocroca xyrias
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| Leptocroca xyrias | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Gelechioidea |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Leptocroca |
| Species: | L. xyrias |
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| Leptocroca xyrias Meyrick, 1931 | |
Leptocroca xyrias is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. The taxonomy of this species is in need of revision and L. xyrias likely belongs to a separate genus. It is endemic to New Zealand. It has been classified as Data Deficient by the Department of Conservation.
This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931 from a specimen collected at "Blackmillar" (Black Miller Stream) at Kaikōura by Stewart Lindsay in December.[1][2][3] George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1939 publication A supplement to the Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand.[4] The genus level classification of this species is regarded as unsatisfactory.[5] As such the species is also known as Leptocroca (s.l.) xyrias.[6] The holotype specimen is held at the Canterbury Museum.[2]
Description
Meyrick described the species as follows:
♂︎. 18mm. - Head, thorax light brownish, slightly sprinkled fuscous. Palpi fuscous, tips of joints whitish. Antennal ciliations 1. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; brown, suffusedly irrodated fuscous on costal half, except posteriorly; a slightly raised dark fuscous dot beneath fold at 1⁄4; cilia light grey, basal half overlaid paler, outer third whitish-grey. Hindwings grey, suffusedly irrorated darker on posterior half; cilia light grey, outer third-whitish grey.[1]
Distribution
Biology and behaviour
This species is on the wing in December.[4]
