Parectopa leucocyma ( Meyrick, 1889 )

Prins, Jurate De, Hartley, Diana, Sruoga, Virginijus, Nicholls, James, Wallace, Jesse & Zwick, Andreas, 2025, Diversity of Australian Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with taxonomic and nomenclatural acts within the related taxa (Acrocercopinae and Gracillariinae) based on the evidence of museomics, bionomics, and mitogenomics, Zootaxa 5616 (1), pp. 1-340 : 214

Parectopa leucocyma ( Meyrick, 1889)

( Fig. 442)

“ Grac.[ilaria] leucocyma , n. sp. ”—Meyrick, E., 1889. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 21 (1888): 184. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3290339

Gracillaria leucocyma — Meyrick 1909a: 14.

Parectopa leucocyma — Hudson 1928: 322; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 219.

Acrocercops leucocyma — Dugdale 1988: 71; Hoare et al. 2019: 63.

Type locality: [ New Zealand], Auckland .

Type specimen: Holotype ♀, in NHMUK (London), (♂ according to Dugdale 1988: 71).

Specimens examined: Holotype ♂ [labels verbatim]: [1] ‘Holotype’; [2] ‘ Auckland / New Zealand / 12 December 1885 ’; [3] ‘Meyrick Coll./B.M. 1938-290’; [4] ’ leucocyma Meyr. ’; [5] ‘ Parectopa / leucocyma /1/1 Meyr./E. Meyrick det./in Meyrick Coll.; [6] ‘BMNH(E) 1407053’ in NHMUK (London).

Morphological diagnostic characterisation. Wingspan ca. 7.1 mm; length of the forewing ca. 8.4 mm ( Fig. 442).

Head: vertex shining white, occiput with two tufts of short shining white piliform scales, directed posteriad, labial palpus slender, with sharp apex, directed straight forward, antenna slightly longer than forewing ochreous; scape concolourous with the rest of the flagellomeres.

Thorax ( Fig. 442): ochreous, tegula ochreous. Forewing ground colour dark ochreous with three visible costal strigulae: the first broad costal strigula at the mid of forewing, the second short patch-shaped strigula at 1/3 of sub-apical margin of costa and the third comma-shaped, oblique, narrow strigula at 1/4 of costa apical part of costa is marked by three tiny strigulae, dorsal margin of forewing with a long white stripe interrupted by a narrow area of background colour scales, tornus with two with 2–3 short non-edged with black scales strigulae; apical spot small, round, black; the apical line absent, fringe line not perceptible. Legs rather slender, white with light ochreous patches.

Abdomen: broken.

BOLD data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics: No data.

Distribution: New Zealand ( Meyrick 1889: 184).