{{short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image =Mnesictena marmarina 215916435.jpg | image_caption =''Mnesictena marmarina'' | taxon = Mnesictena | authority = Meyrick, 1884<ref name=GlobIZ>{{cite web |website=www.pyraloidea.org |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fPages%2fReports%2fTaxonomyReport.aspx%3fAspxAutoDetectCookieSupport%3d1&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 |title=Global Information System on Pyraloidea (GlobIZ) |last1=Nuss |first1=Matthias |last2=Landry |first2=Bernard |last3=Mally |first3=Richard |last4=Vegliante |first4=Francesca |last5=Tränkner |first5=Andreas |last6=Bauer |first6=Franziska |last7=Hayden |first7=James |last8=Segerer |first8=Andreas |last9=Schouten |first9=Rob |last10=Li |first10=Houhun |last11=Trofimova |first11=Tatiana |last12=Solis |first12=M. Alma |author-link12=Maria Alma Solis |last13=De Prins |first13=Jurate |last14=Speidel |first14=Wolfgang |date=2003–2020 |access-date=2020-02-01 |language=en}}</ref> | synonyms = }}
'''''Mnesictena''''' is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae, where it is placed in the tribe Udeini.<ref name=Mally-eal-2019>{{cite journal |last1=Mally |first1=Richard |last2=Hayden |first2=James E. |last3=Neinhuis |first3=Christoph |last4=Jordal |first4=Bjarte H. |last5=Nuss |first5=Matthias |year=2019 |title=The phylogenetic systematics of Spilomelinae and Pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) inferred from DNA and morphology |journal=Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=141–204 |doi=10.26049/ASP77-1-2019-07 |issn=1863-7221 |url=http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/arthropodsystematics/asp_77_1/07_asp_77-1_mally_141-204.pdf |access-date=2020-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704203551/http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/arthropodsystematics/asp_77_1/07_asp_77-1_mally_141-204.pdf |archive-date=2019-07-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The genus was erected by the English entomologist Edward Meyrick in 1884.<ref name=GlobIZ/> The currently known seven species are exclusively found on New Zealand and the associated Antipodes Islands and Chatham Islands.<ref name=GlobIZ/>
In the past, ''Mnesictena'' was included in the genus ''Udea'',<ref name=Munroe-1983>{{cite book|last=Munroe|author-link=Eugene G. Munroe|first=Eugene Gordon|date=1983|chapter=Pyralidae (except Crambinae)|pages=67–76, 78–85|editor-last1=Hodges|editor-first1=R. W.|editor-last2=Dominick|editor-first2=T.|editor-last3=Franclemont|editor-first3=J. G.|editor-last4=Munroe|editor-first4=Eugene Gordon|editor-last5=Powell|editor-first5=J. A.|title=Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico Including Greenland|publisher=E. W. Classey Ltd. and the Wedge Entomological Research Foundation|place=London}}</ref><ref name=Mally-Nuss-2011>{{cite journal|last1=Mally|first1=Richard|last2=Nuss|first2=Matthias|date=2011|title=Molecular and morphological phylogeny of European ''Udea'' moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)|journal=Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny|volume=69|issue=1|pages=55–71|url=https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/asp_69_1_mally_55-71.pdf}}</ref> but it is currently considered a separate genus.<ref name=GlobIZ/><ref name=Mally-eal-2019/><ref name=Dugdale-1988>{{cite journal|last=Dugdale|first=J. S.|date=1988|title=Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa|journal=Fauna of New Zealand|volume=14|pages=1–262}}</ref>
The caterpillars feed on different plants, with ''Mnesictena flavidalis'' being recorded from ''Muehlenbeckia'' (Polygonaceae), ''M. daiclesalis'' from ''Veronica macrocarpa'' (Plantaginaceae), and ''M. notata'' as well as ''M. marmarina'' from ''Urtica'', the latter also from ''Australina''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Patrick|first1=Hamish J.H.|last2=Bowie|first2=Mike H.|last3=Fox|first3=Barry W.|last4=Patrick|first4=Brian H.|title=The moths of Quail Island (Ōtamahua): a faunal comparison of an island under restoration with other sites on Banks Peninsula|journal=New Zealand Natural Sciences|date=2011|volume=36|pages=57–72|hdl=10182/6365}}</ref><ref name=Robinson-eal-2010>{{cite web|last1=Robinson|first1=Gaden S.|last2=Ackery|first2=Phillip R.|last3=Kitching|first3=Ian J.|last4=Beccaloni|first4=George W.|last5=Hernández|first5=Luis M.|title=HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants|website=Natural History Museum, London|url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants|date=2010|access-date=2020-02-02}}</ref>
==Species== [[File:Udea antipodea AMNZ21779.jpg|thumb|right|''Mnesictena antipodea'', adult, holotype specimen]] *''Mnesictena adversa'' <small>(Philpott, 1917)</small>, distributed on New Zealand *''Mnesictena antipodea'' <small>(Salmon in Salmon & Bradley, 1956)</small>, distributed on the SE Antipodes Island *''Mnesictena daiclesalis'' <small>(Walker, 1859)</small>, distributed on New Zealand *''Mnesictena flavidalis'' <small>(Doubleday, 1843)</small>, distributed on New Zealand *''Mnesictena marmarina'' <small>Meyrick, 1884</small>, distributed on New Zealand; type species of the genus *''Mnesictena notata'' <small>(Butler, 1879)</small>, distributed on New Zealand *''Mnesictena pantheropa'' <small>(Meyrick, 1884)</small>, distributed on the Chatham Islsnds
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Category:Mnesictena Category:Crambidae genera Category:Udeini Category:Taxa named by Edward Meyrick