Parectopa toxomacha ( Meyrick, 1882 )

Parectopa toxomacha ( Meyrick, 1882) View in CoL

( Fig. 447)

“ Grac.[ilaria] toxomacha , n. sp. ”—Meyrick, E., 1882. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7 (2): 197–198. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6461922

Gracillaria toxomacha — Meyrick 1907: 62.

Parectopa toxomacha View in CoL — Turner 1940: 64; Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 223.

Type locality: [ Australia, New South Wales], near Sydney .

Type specimen: Holotype ♂, BMNH(E) 1055794, in NHMUK (London).

Specimens examined: Holotype ♂: with abdomen, [1] ‘Sydney, N. S. [New South] Wales, 04 September 1881 ’; [2] Holotype; [3] ‘ toxomacha Meyr [ick]’; [4] BMNH(E) ♯1055794‘; [5] ‘ Parectopa toxomacha , 1/1 Meyr[ick], E. Meyrick det. in Meyrick Coll.; [6] ‘BMNH(E) 1407633’, in NHMUK (London).

Morphological diagnostic characterisation: length of forewing ca. 3.5 mm. Wing span ca. 7.5 mm ( Fig. 447).

Head: covered with smooth white, intermixed with ochreous, long piliform scales, directed anteriorly; occiput dirty white, intermixed with ochreous, short piliform scales directed posteriorly. Antenna just slightly longer than the length of the forewing, dark brown dorsally, whitish ventrally; the pedicel is short, dark brown, the scape is thicker than the rest of the flagellomeres, dark brown dorsally, whitish ventrally.

Thorax ( Fig. 447): dirty white, tegula dark ochreous anteriorly and light ochreous posteriorly. Forewing narrow, equally wide from base to apex; the ground colour is dark ochreous with complex white ornaments: costal margin with sub-median sinuating fascia broad at costa and narrowly ending at sub-apical part of the dorsum; sub-apical margin of costa with two broadly based strigulae, apical part of the forewing with one costal broadly triangular strigula and two white apical patches sandwiching black apical stripe; dorsal margin of forewing with wavy white apical streak; apical stripe marked obviously, apical and fringe lines gently follow each other, coloured dark brown; fringe long, creamy white, the longest at tornus. Hindwing narrow, shorter than the forewing, dark ochreous, with a very sharp apex; fringe long, longer at dorsum, creamy white. Mid legs ochreous; hind legs dirty white with fuscous patches.

Abdomen. Tergites dark brown-fuscous, anterior genital segment ochreous.

BOLD data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics: Fabaceae : Pultenaea daphnoides Westland ( Meyrick 1907: 62) , Pultenaea sp. ( Meyrick 1882: 198). Mining period end of July, emerging period early September ( Meyrick 1882: 198).

Distribution: Australia: New South Wales ( Meyrick 1882: 198).