Gadira (moth)

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

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

Taxonomy

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

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

The species found in this genus are:^[4]

Gadira acerella Walker, 1866
Gadira leucophthalma (Meyrick, 1882)
Gadira petraula (Meyrick, 1882)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gadira Walker, 1866 - Biota of NZ". biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
^ ^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.
^ ^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)
^ 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.

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[BiotaNZ-1] "Gadira Walker, 1866 - Biota of NZ". biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz. Retrieved 2022-11-06.

[Dugdale1988-2] 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.

[Walker1866-3] 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)

[NZIB-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.

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