Euclemensia woodiella ist ein Schmetterling (Nachtfalter) aus der Familie der Prachtfalter (Cosmopterigidae).
Die Falter erreichen eine Flügelspannweite von etwa 17 Millimeter. Der Kopf glänzt bronzebraun und ist grünlich getönt. Die Fühler sind dunkelbraun und haben einen leicht violetten Glanz. Im Subapikalbereich befinden sich etwa 9 weiße Segmente. Thorax und Tegulae glänzen bronzebraun und sind grünlich getönt. Die Vorderflügel haben eine hell orange Grundfärbung, an der Basis von Costalader und Flügelinnenrand sind sie dunkelbraun. An der Costalader befindet sich ein keulenförmiger Fleck. Von der Mitte der Costalader bis zu 4/5 der Vorderflügellänge verläuft ein dunkelbrauner Costalstrich. In Richtung der Flügelbasis ist er am breitesten und umschließt hier einen kleinen orangen subcostalen Fleck. Der Flügelinnenrand ist vom ersten Drittel bis zum Apex dunkelbraun, eine orange Binde unterbricht diesen Bereich hinter der Mitte. Ein gelboranger Costalstrich befindet sich bei 4/5 der Länge der Costalader. Zur Zeichnung gehören vier höckerartige, bläuliche oder leicht violett glänzende Flecke. Der erste befindet sich am distalen Ende des keulenförmigen Flecks. Der zweite und dritte Fleck befindet sich beidseits der Analfalte am basalen Rand des dunkelbraunen Bereichs am Flügelinnenrand. Der vierte und kleinste Fleck liegt unterhalb des orangen Subcostalflecks. Ein dunkler, violett und grünlich schimmernder schmaler Strich verläuft entlang der Analfalte. Er beginnt distal bei den beiden höckerartigen Flecken am dunkelbraunen Bereich des Flügelinnenrandes und reicht bis zum Flügelaußenrand. Die Fransenschuppen sind graubraun. Die Hinterflügel schimmern graubraun und haben einen orangen Glanz.[1]
Die Genitalarmatur der Männchen ist leicht asymmetrisch. Die Brachia sind lang und breit und verjüngen sich distal. Die Valven sind lang und schlank und leicht gekrümmt. Die Valvellae sind lang und schlank und verjüngen sich distal. Das Vinculum ist breit und besitzt keinen Saccus. Der Aedeagus ist gekrümmt und besitzt zwei Cornuti.[1]
Die Genitalarmatur der Weibchen ist unbekannt.[1]
Euclemensia woodiella ist nur aus dem Kersal Moor bei Manchester in England bekannt. Die Art wurde seit 1829 nicht mehr nachgewiesen und ist vermutlich ausgestorben.[1]
Über die Lebensweise der Art ist nichts bekannt. Es wird vermutet, dass die Raupen, wie die beiden in Nordamerika beheimateten verwandten Arten, an Schildläusen der Gattung Kermes parasitieren. Die Falter wurden Mitte Juni gesammelt.[1]
Aus der Literatur sind folgende Synonyme bekannt:[2][1]
Euclemensia woodiella ist ein Schmetterling (Nachtfalter) aus der Familie der Prachtfalter (Cosmopterigidae).
Euclemensia woodiella, the Manchester tinea[1] (or Manchester moth, since it does not belong to the Tineoidea), is a yellow and brown British moth. It is regarded as extinct, and is known from only three museum specimens, one of which is held by the Manchester Museum,[2] one by the Natural History Museum, London, and the type, which is in the Curtis Collection at Museum Victoria.
At first placed in Pancalia or Schiffermuelleria, in 1864 it was separated in a monotypic genus Hamadryas by Clemens. However, his proposed genus name had already been used in 1806, when J. Hübner gave it to the cracker butterflies; Clemens' name was thus a junior homonym and invalid. To replace it, A.R. Grote in 1878 erected the current genus, Euclemensia, honoring Clemens' effort. This too was monotypic at first, and while the relationships of the Manchester tinea are now difficult to study in sufficient detail to determine if such a separation is appropriate, it does still indicate that a quite distinct and peculiar lineage was lost with the extinction of this moth.
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In 1829 an amateur insect collector named Robert Cribb collected a series of about fifty small yellow and brown moths from a rotting alder on Kersal Moor in Salford, near Manchester. These turned out to be a previously unknown species of moth, but they were mistakenly attributed to a friend of Cribb’s, the collector R. Wood, who had asked the entomologist John Curtis to identify them. The moths were named by Curtis as Pancalia woodiella in Wood's honour.
P. Woodiella Curt. Brit. Ent 304—The only specimen I have seen of this beautiful Moth, which is larger than the others, is a female; it was taken on Kersall-moor the middle of last June by Mr. R. Wood, of Manchester, to whom I have the pleasure of dedicating it;—a most zealous and successful naturalist, to whose liberality I am indebted for many valuable insects.
- John Curtis[3]
Enraged by this, and by accusations of fraudulently passing off foreign moths as British, Cribb gave up collecting and left the rest of the collection with his landlady as security for a debt. Here the stories from Manchester University[4] and The Australian Museum, Victoria[5] differ as to whether it was Cribb's pub landlady or the landlady of his lodgings, but either way the result was the same. The debt was not paid on time and when Cribb went back for the moths, which he had already sold to another collector, his landlady had burnt them. Subsequent efforts by other collectors to find more of the moths were unsuccessful, and the three specimens left in existence are thought to be the only representatives of an extinct species.
Euclemensia woodiella, the Manchester tinea (or Manchester moth, since it does not belong to the Tineoidea), is a yellow and brown British moth. It is regarded as extinct, and is known from only three museum specimens, one of which is held by the Manchester Museum, one by the Natural History Museum, London, and the type, which is in the Curtis Collection at Museum Victoria.
At first placed in Pancalia or Schiffermuelleria, in 1864 it was separated in a monotypic genus Hamadryas by Clemens. However, his proposed genus name had already been used in 1806, when J. Hübner gave it to the cracker butterflies; Clemens' name was thus a junior homonym and invalid. To replace it, A.R. Grote in 1878 erected the current genus, Euclemensia, honoring Clemens' effort. This too was monotypic at first, and while the relationships of the Manchester tinea are now difficult to study in sufficient detail to determine if such a separation is appropriate, it does still indicate that a quite distinct and peculiar lineage was lost with the extinction of this moth.
Euclemensia woodiella is een vlinder uit de familie prachtmotten (Cosmopterigidae). De wetenschappelijke naam is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1830 door Curtis.
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Bronnen, noten en/of referenties
Euclemensia woodiella, hay Manchester Tinea[1] là một loài bướm đêm màu nâu và vàng ở Anh, và chỉ có 3 mẫu được quan sát, một trong số ba mẫu này được lưu trữ ở Manchester Museum[2], một mẫu khác ở Natural History Museum, London, và mẫu thứ 3 trong bộ sưu tập của John Curtis ở Museum Victoria.
Euclemensia woodiella, hay Manchester Tinea là một loài bướm đêm màu nâu và vàng ở Anh, và chỉ có 3 mẫu được quan sát, một trong số ba mẫu này được lưu trữ ở Manchester Museum, một mẫu khác ở Natural History Museum, London, và mẫu thứ 3 trong bộ sưu tập của John Curtis ở Museum Victoria.
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