Zelleria porphyraula is a moth in the family Yponomeutidae.[1] It was first described by Edward Meyrick and is endemic to New Zealand.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Yponomeutidae |
| Genus: | Zelleria |
| Species: | Z. porphyraula
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| Zelleria porphyraula Meyrick, 1927
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Taxonomy
This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1927.[2] The male holotype specimen was collected in Wellington in April by George Hudson when beating the species Podocarpus totara.[2] The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[3]
Description
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Meyrick described this species as follows:
♂ 13 mm. Head white, forehead and a lateral stripe on crown light fulvous, forehead sprinkled black. Palpi pale grey sprinkled black. Thorax dark bluish-grey, a central whitish streak, tegulae purple. Forewings narrow, costa arched towards pointed apex; bronzy-greyish-ochreous, slightly orange-tinged; costal edge greyish-purple, with some scattered small black dots; sub-costal and median suffused greyish-purple streaks, confluent towards base and terminating in an apical blotch, median interrupted by a whitish patch above tornus; suffused white dots on sub-costal representing discal stigmata and one on median obliquely before first discal representing plical; an irregular white streak above dorsum from near base to middle of wing, sprinkled or dotted black, dorsum beneath this narrowly brownish-ochreous from base to tornus, dorsal edge towards base mottled black; a few white scales towards apex: cilia bronzy-brown, on tornal area light greyish, tips round apex black, at origin of costal cilia some white scales. Hindwings light bluish-grey; cilia light grey.[2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1] It has been observed in both the North and South Islands.[4]
Behaviour
This species is on the wing in November and April.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Zelleria porphyraula Meyrick, 1927". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
- ^ a b c Edward Meyrick (15 November 1927). "Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 58: 314–315. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q108312620.
- ^ 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: 76. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ a b George Vernon Hudson (1939), A supplement to the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 460, OCLC 9742724, Wikidata Q109420935
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