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Gadira (moth)

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Gadira
Gadira acerella male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Crambinae
Tribe: Chiloini
Genus: Gadira
Walker, 1866[1]
Type species
Gadira acerella
Walker, 1866
Synonyms[2]
  • Cryptomima Meyrick, 1882
  • Scenoploca Meyrick, 1882

Gadira is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.[1] This genus is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Taxonomy

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This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1866 and named Gadira.[3] The type species of this genus is Gadira acerella by original monotypy.[2]

Description

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Walker originally described this genus as follows:

Female. Body rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, broad, obtuse, thickly clothed with short hairs beneath, shorter than the breadth of the head; third joint very minute. Antennae slender. Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs rather long, moderately stout; spurs long, slender. Wings long. Fore wings narrow, hardly acute; costa hardly convex; exterior border slightly convex, very oblique.[3]

Species

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The species found in this genus are:[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gadira Walker, 1866 - Biota of NZ". biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
  2. ^ a b 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: 144. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
  3. ^ a b Francis Walker (1866), List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XXXV. - supplement, part 5., London, p. 1742, Wikidata Q115099201{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 457. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.