Sabatinca calliarcha

Sabatinca calliarcha is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae.[1] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is known from New Zealand.[2]

Sabatinca calliarcha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Micropterigidae
Genus:
Sabatinca
Species:
S. calliarcha
Binomial name
Sabatinca calliarcha
Meyrick, 1912

Adults were found in December.

Original description

Wingspan 12 millimetres (0.47 in) for males. Head light bronzy-ochreous, hairs extremely long. Antennae pale ochreous, ringed with dark fuscous. Thorax clothed with long, bronzy-ochreous hairs, beneath which is a white bent stripe on each side of back. Abdomen blackish, apex ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate-ovate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen very obliquely rounded; yellow; dorsum suffused with ferrugineous-brown, with a few black scales on edge; four golden-whitish streaks from costa between base and 2/3 converging towards posterior half of dorsum, first edged posteriorly with ferrugineous-brown mixed with indigo-black, hardly reaching dorsum, other three margined at both sides with ferrugineous-brown streaks and on costa with black, second and fourth reaching dorsum, third reaching about half across the wing; posterior area ferrugineous-brownish somewhat mixed with pale yellowish, with an irregular black dot in disc at 3/4, and four black dots on costa edged beneath with golden-whitish; a thick black streak lying along termen from near apex to tornus, edged with ochreous-yellowish and interrupted to form a long upper and short lower portion, upper portion including two golden-metallic terminal dots: cilia light ochreous-yellowish, with a violet-coppery basal line edged externally with grey. Hindwings deep purple, disc and veins blackish; cilia blackish-grey.[3]

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References
  1. Gibbs, George W. "Fauna of New Zealand 72: Micropterigidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research. doi:10.7931/j2/fnz.72. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  2. "Sabatinca calliarcha Meyrick, 1912". www.nkis.info. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  3. "Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand". 44. Royal Society of New Zealand. 1911: 124 and 125. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

 This article incorporates text from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a publication from 1911 now in the public domain in the United States.


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