Moca chlorolepis
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Moca chlorolepis is a poorly understood butterfly ( moth ) formed on the to Australia belonging Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean endemic is. It is only known of three specimenscollected by Charles William Andrews in 1898. Nothing is known about their habitat and way of life.
features
The characteristics and dimensions refer to two specimens (a male and a female) that are kept in the Natural History Museum in London . The wing span of the male is 28 mm and that of the female 23 mm. The antennae are dark brown. The palpi are dark brown on the outside and brownish cinnamon on the inside. The end link of the sensor is short and does not protrude above the head level. The head is gray-brown.
The thorax, which is dark brown in its basic color, is speckled with greenish and light ash-gray scales . The dark brown forewings are abundantly speckled with light yellowish-green scales. The greenish scales are somewhat denser on the basal half, on a transverse band at the end of the wing cell and around the apical and terminal part of the wing, whereby a brown, less densely scaly band is visible in the middle. The fringed scales of the forewings are brownish gray. A narrow, ocher-brown edge runs in front of them. The hind wings are gray-brown. The outer two thirds of the fringed scales of the hind wings are whitish ash gray. The abdomen and legs are gray-brown. The end of the posterior tibia and the last four tarsal limbs are brownish ocher in color.
Systematics
Moca chlorolepis was founded in 1900 by Thomas de Gray, 6th Baron Walsingham as Tortricomorpha chlorolepis first described and the family of ermine moth classified (Yponomeutidae). In 1906 this species was placed in the genus Imma by Edward Meyrick . In 1977 John B. Heppner established the new family Immidae with Imma as a type genus. In 1982 Heppner transferred the species to the genus Moca .
Hazard and protection
Moca chlorolepis is currently not covered by the IUCN . This species of moth has been thought to be lost since it was discovered at the end of the 19th century.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lord Walsingham: Micro-Lepidoptera In: Charles W. Andrews: A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), Physical Features and Geology , 1900, p. 78
- ↑ Edward Meyrick: XI. On the genus Imma, Walk. (= Tortricomorpha, Feld.) Transactions of The Royal Entomological Society of London 1906 54, pp. 169-206
- ^ John B. Heppner: The status of the Glyphipterigidae and a reassessment of relationships in yponomeutoidae families and. Ditrysian superfamilies. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 31, 1977, pp. 124-134
- ^ John B. Heppner: Review of the family Immidae, with a world checklist (Lepidoptera: Immoidea). - Entomography 1, 1982, pp. 257-279
- ^ John Woinarski: The Fate of Christmas Island Nature In: A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Modern Extinction in Australia Csiro Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-1-486-30863-7 , p. 91