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Rhodoneura sericatalis

Terminalia Cone-maker

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Terminalia Cone-maker, Speckled Satin

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Indonesia / Australia - French Polynesia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group only (RR, MG, ?); Land, lowlands

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Fruit damaging

KEY FEATURES: Small moth (8-9mmTL) shiny white with many irregular brown lines, and near forewing tip 2 dark spots.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P	P	P				-	-	-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Pests & Hosts

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Herbivorous pest	Inocarpus fagifer,

Scientific Taxonomy

Rhodoneura sericatalis ?Rebel
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PTERYGOTA; Lepidoptera; THYRIDIDAE

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SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -
NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Fruit damaging. Comments: Larvae lives inside fruits, such as Polynesian Chestnut.

IDENTIFICATION: Small moth (8-9mmTL) shiny white with brown speckles. Fore and Hind wings shiny white with brown speckles forming broken bands across wings, with 2 dark spots near tip with 0-4 submarginal spots. Leading edge of fore wings dark grey. Underside similar to upper but leading edge of fore wings much more heavily darkened with brownish grey. Head, Thorax and Abdomen shiny white, collar grey, brushes at tip of abdomen buff, legs greyish white, antennae greyish white with buff `serrations.

GENERAL NOTE: Biology: Caterpillar makes a cone out of part of the leaf margin of the small tree Terminalia. These stand erect on the leaf surface and are very obvious. Adults are diurnal.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: specimen+photo, 1995, S.Montgomery, in BPBM, tentative ID G.McCormack based on BESO #330; specimen+photo, BESO #330, ID J.Dugdale 4/2000 as Rhodoneura sericatalis. Mangaia: one specimen, 11/1983, G.Paulay, in BPBM unidentified, ID GMcC 2/2003 against Samoa spms ID C.H.Swezey. (NB Niue Paulay spms of similar species have distinctive brown blotch midposterior of forewing, lacking in spms in BPBM from Tonga and Samoa). Atiu: fieldspecimen+photo, 2006/12, to light at village, G.McCormack with ID as Rhodoneura sericatalis.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM05a, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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