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词条 Aletia inconstans
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  1. Taxonomy

  2. Description

  3. Distribution

  4. Biology and behaviour

  5. Habitat and host species

  6. References

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| image = Aletia s.l. inconstans female.jpg
| image_caption = Female
| image2 = Aletia s.l. inconstans male.jpg
| image2_caption = Male
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Noctuidae
| subfamilia = Hadeninae
| tribus =
| genus = Aletia
| species = A. inconstans
| binomial = Aletia inconstans
| binomial_authority = (Butler, 1880)[1]
| synonyms ={{Specieslist
|Spaelotis inconstans|Butler, 1880
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Aletia inconstans is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is found in both the North and South Islands but is considered a rare species.

Taxonomy

This species was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880 using material collected by W. Skellon in Blenheim and named Spaelotis inconstans.[1][2] George Hudson discussed this species in his 1898 book New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera) as a synonym of Leucania griseipennis.[3] He again discussed as well as illustrated the species in his 1928 book The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand under the name Aletia inconstans.[4] The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.[1]

The genus level classification of New Zealand endemic moths within the genus Aletia is regarded as unsatisfactory and is under revision.[5] It is likely that this species will be removed from the genus Aletia and be placed within one of the following genera: Physetica, Graphania, Tmetolophota or Ichneutica.[5] As such the species is currently also known as Aletia (s.l.) inconstans.[6]

Description

Butler described the species as follows:

{{quote|Primaries above greenish-grey, indistinctly speckled with black; the ordinary lines ill-defined, formed by series of pale hastate or lunate markings edged internally with black, and connected here and there ; the innermost line replaced by three oblique independent zigzag lines, the outermost of which is interrupted by the "orbicular" spot, the latter being bounded internally by the central of the three lines ; the discoidal spots large, whitish, separated from one another and from the post-median line by black-edged dusky intervening spots; a marginal series of black dots; fringe sordid white, traversed by two slightly undulated greyish-brown lines; secondaries shining fuliginous brown with faint pinky reflections and diffused dusky border; fringe sordid white with very indistinct grey intersecting line; thorax grey, abdomen greyish-brown ; under surface greyish-white, speckled with grey scales towards the costal margins and apices of the wings; the latter are also sericeous with blackish discocellular >-shaped markings and indistinct traces of two nearly parallel greyish discal lines ; primaries with the discoidal area slightly dusky; tarsi brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines.[2]}}

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand.[7][8] Other than the type locality of Blenheim, this species has been found near the Buller River in the Westcoast,[9] at Quail Island and Hinewai Reserve in Canterbury,[10] and near Coronet Peak,[11] at Tara Hills Research Station,[17] and at Ida Valley in Otago.[4] This species has also been located in the North Island at Mount Taranaki,[12] Waiouru and Wellington.[4]

Biology and behaviour

This species is regarded as being rare.[4][12] It is on the wing from November to February.[4] This species is attracted to light and has been collected via light trapping.[13] It has also been collected through sugar trapping.[4]

Habitat and host species

A. inconstans prefers to inhabit open areas near forest or shrubland.[10]

References

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1. ^{{cite journal|last1=Dugdale|first1=J. S.|date=1988|title=Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa|url=http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/49008/FNZ14Dugdale1988150.pdf|journal=Fauna of New Zealand|volume=14|pages=200|issn=0111-5383|accessdate=12 June 2018|via=}}
2. ^{{Cite journal|last=Butler|first=A. G.|author-link=Arthur Gardiner Butler|date=1880|title=On a collection of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Marlborough Province, New Zealand.|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10891225|journal=Cistula Entomologica|volume=2|pages=541–562|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
3. ^{{cite book|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7643694|title=New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera)|last1=Hudson|first1=G. V.|date=1898|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=London|pages=9|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.7912|oclc=727236768|author-link=George Hudson (entomologist)|accessdate=12 June 2018}}
4. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.bugz.org.nz/WebForms/ResultDetails.aspx?CurrentDoc=C7E94865-492F-45DA-9777-CC8E1E8B1438&back=true&NewDoc=true&searchType=1&SearchString=G.V.+Hudson|title=The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand|last=Hudson|first=G. V.|publisher=Ferguson & Osborn Ltd.|year=1928|isbn=|location=Wellington|pages=57|oclc=25449322|authorlink=George Hudson (entomologist)}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/identification/animals/large-moths/notes-on-families-and-subfamilies-of-larger-moths-included-in-this-guide|title=Larger moths of New Zealand: Image gallery and online guide|last=Hoare|first=R.J.B.|last2=Rhode|first2=B.E.|date=March 2012|website=Landcare Research|publisher=Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd|language=en|access-date=2017-12-18|last3=Emmerson|first3=A.W.}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://species-id.net/w/index.php?title=TNZOR_Lepidoptera&oldid=21693|title=TNZOR Lepidoptera|website=Species-ID|language=en|access-date=2017-12-18}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/34300343-2be9-4ee0-87ab-1f4093a150ef|title=Aletia inconstans (Butler, 1880)|last=|first=|date=|website=www.nzor.org.nz|publisher=Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-06-12}}
8. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973607714|title=New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume two. Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils|last=|first=|publisher=Canterbury University Press|year=2010|isbn=9781877257933|editor-last=Gordon|editor-first=Dennis P.|volume=Vol. 2|location=Christchurch, N.Z.|pages=461|oclc=973607714}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1345817|title=Aletia inconstans (Butler, 1880) AI.030287|last=|first=|date=|website=www.collections.tepapa.govt.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=12 June 2018}}
10. ^{{cite journal|last1=Patrick|first1=H.|last2=Bowie|first2=M.|last3=Fox|first3=B.|last4=Patrick|first4=B.|date=2011|title=The moths of Quail Island (Ōtamahua): a faunal comparison of an island under restoration with other sites on Banks Peninsula.|url=https://hdl.handle.net/10182/6365|journal=New Zealand Natural Sciences|volume=36|pages=57–72|accessdate=12 July 2017}}
11. ^{{cite report|url=https://www.linz.govt.nz/system/files_force/media/crown-property-attachments/tenure-review/ig/coronet-peak-crr-pt2.pdf?download=1|title=Crown Pastoral Land Tenure Review Coronet Peak Conservation Resources Report - Part 2|author=|authors=|first=|date=2006|publisher=Land Information New Zealand|issue=|doi=|volume=|page=APPENDIX 6: Invertebrate Species List|pmid=|docket=|quote=|author-link=|access-date=12 June 2018}}
12. ^{{cite journal|last1=Fox|first1=K. J.|date=January 1970|title=The Lepidoptera of the Egmont National Park.|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209224459/http://ento.org.nz/nzentomologist/free_issues/NZEnto04_4_1970/Volume%204-4-30-38.pdf|journal=New Zealand Entomologist|volume=4|issue=4|pages=30–38|doi=10.1080/00779962.1970.9723070|accessdate=12 June 2018|via=}}
13. ^{{cite journal |last1=Patrick |first1=B. H. |title=Survey of Lepidoptera at Tara Hills Research Station |journal=New Zealand Entomologist |date=January 1989 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=42–48 |doi=10.1080/00779962.1989.9722562 |url=http://www.bugz.org.nz/WebForms/ResultDetails.aspx?CurrentDoc=7EAE046C-1B47-4951-AAD7-5AFF23B45D42&back=true&NewDoc=true&searchType=4&SearchString=inconstans |accessdate=12 June 2018}}
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