Gadira | |
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Gadira acerella male | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Crambidae |
Subfamily: | Crambinae |
Tribe: | Chiloini |
Genus: | Gadira Walker, 1866[1] |
Type species | |
Gadira acerella Walker, 1866
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Gadira is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.[1] This genus is endemic to New Zealand.[1]
This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1866 and named Gadira.[3] The type species of this genus is Gadira acerella by original monotypy.[2]
Walker originally described this genus as follows:
Female. Body rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, broad, obtuse, thickly clothed with short hairs beneath, shorter than the breadth of the head; third joint very minute. Antennae slender. Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs rather long, moderately stout; spurs long, slender. Wings long. Fore wings narrow, hardly acute; costa hardly convex; exterior border slightly convex, very oblique.[3]
The species found in this genus are:[4]