Harmologa oblongana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Harmologa |
| Species: | H. oblongana
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Harmologa oblongana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
[edit]This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1863 using a female specimen collected in Nelson by T. R. Huxley and named Teras oblongana.[2][3] In the same publication Walker, thinking he was naming a new species, named this moth Teras inaptana. George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species under the name Harmologa oblongana in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand.[4] In 1930 Alfred Philpott, thinking he was describing a new species, named this moth Tortrix indomita. Hudson went on to discuss and illustrate the larvae of this species in his 1950 book Fragments of New Zealand entomology.[5] The female holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[3]
Description
[edit]The forewings are ochreous whitish, suffused with brownish ochreous and fuscous grey along the margins. The costa and inner margin are strigulated (finely streaked) with dark fuscous and there is a distinct dark fuscous-grey basal patch, often mixed with ochreous. The hindwings are whitish grey, tinged with ochreous and spotted with dark grey. The apex is dark grey.[6]
The male of this species is usually very dull looking, and it's wing-markings are often very indefinite, however the female is more distinctly marked.[5]
Habitat and hosts
[edit]Larvae of this species have been collected from spun up leaves of Discaria toumatou.[5]
References
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- ^ tortricidae.com
- ^ Francis Walker (1863), List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, Part XXVIII. - Tortricites and Tineites, London, pp. 303=304, Wikidata Q109352878
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b 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: 124. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ Hudson, G. V. (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 239, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b c George Vernon Hudson (1950), Fragments of New Zealand entomology. - a popular account of all New Zealand cicadas. The natural history of the New Zealand glow-worm. A second supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand and notes on many other native insects., Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 105, Wikidata Q107693053 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
