Bityla defigurata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Bityla |
Species: | B. defigurata
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Binomial name | |
Bityla defigurata | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Bityla defigurata is a moth of the family Noctuidae. [1] It is endemic to New Zealand.
This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1865 using specimens collected by T. R. Oxley in Nelson and originally named Xylina defigurata. [3] Edward Meyrick placed this species in the genus Bityla and synonymised Bityla thoracica with this species. [4] The female holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [2]
Walker described this species as follows:
Female. Cinereous-brown. Head and fore tegulae of the thorax dark brown. Palpi dull ochraceous, fringed beneath, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex ; second joint mostly black on the outer side ; third elongate-conical, about one-third of the length of the second. Abdomen brownish-cinereous, extending rather beyond, the hind wings; apical tuft ochraceous. Wings shining, tinged with aeneous. Fore wings with some indistinct brown lines composed of lunules ; orbicular and reniform marks indistinctly brown-bordered. Hind wings a little more cinereous than the fore wings. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. [3]
It is endemic to New Zealand and found in both the North and South Islands. [1] [5]
The adults of this species are on the wing from January to March and is attracted to light. [5]
The larvae of this species have been reared on Muehlenbeckia australis and Muehlenbeckia complexa. [6]
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Bityla defigurata | |
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Female | |
Male | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Bityla |
Species: | B. defigurata
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Binomial name | |
Bityla defigurata | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Bityla defigurata is a moth of the family Noctuidae. [1] It is endemic to New Zealand.
This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1865 using specimens collected by T. R. Oxley in Nelson and originally named Xylina defigurata. [3] Edward Meyrick placed this species in the genus Bityla and synonymised Bityla thoracica with this species. [4] The female holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London. [2]
Walker described this species as follows:
Female. Cinereous-brown. Head and fore tegulae of the thorax dark brown. Palpi dull ochraceous, fringed beneath, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex ; second joint mostly black on the outer side ; third elongate-conical, about one-third of the length of the second. Abdomen brownish-cinereous, extending rather beyond, the hind wings; apical tuft ochraceous. Wings shining, tinged with aeneous. Fore wings with some indistinct brown lines composed of lunules ; orbicular and reniform marks indistinctly brown-bordered. Hind wings a little more cinereous than the fore wings. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. [3]
It is endemic to New Zealand and found in both the North and South Islands. [1] [5]
The adults of this species are on the wing from January to March and is attracted to light. [5]
The larvae of this species have been reared on Muehlenbeckia australis and Muehlenbeckia complexa. [6]
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