Sabatinca barbarica

Sabatinca barbarica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Micropterigidae
Genus: Sabatinca
Species: S. barbarica
Binomial name
Sabatinca barbarica
Philpott, 1918

Sabatinca barbarica is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Philpott in 1918 and is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Adults were found amongst low herbage in the forest in December and January.

Original description

Wingspan 10โ€“11 millimetres (0.39โ€“0.43 in). Head rather bright ochreous. Antennae pale ochreous, apical portion black. Thorax ochreous. Abdomen dark greyish-fuscous. Legs ochreous, tarsi annulated with black. Forewings ovate-lanceolate, costa moderately arched, apex acute, termen extremely oblique; pale ochreous; a bright coppery suffusion along dorsum often segregated into one or more spots; base of costa obscurely darker; an interrupted irregular coppery fascia from costa near base to tornus, sometimes including an almost black spot at middle; sometimes one or more coppery spots on costa at 1/2; three coppery (sometimes blackish) spots on costa at apex, from which an irregular coppery fascia runs towards dorsum, connecting with first fascia above tornus; sometimes a blackish dot on termen at middle; cilia pale ochreous.

Taxonomy

It is mostly listed as a synonym for Sabatinca caustica.

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