# Mnesictena

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{{short description|Genus of moths}}
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| image =Mnesictena marmarina 215916435.jpg
| image_caption =''Mnesictena marmarina''
| taxon = Mnesictena
| authority = [Meyrick](/source/Edward_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>
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'''''Mnesictena''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [snout moths](/source/Pyraloidea) in the [subfamily](/source/subfamily) [Spilomelinae](/source/Spilomelinae), where it is placed in the [tribe](/source/tribe_(biology)) [Udeini](/source/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](/source/entomology) [Edward Meyrick](/source/Edward_Meyrick) in 1884.<ref name=GlobIZ/> The currently known seven species are exclusively found on [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand) and the associated [Antipodes Islands](/source/Antipodes_Islands) and [Chatham Islands](/source/Chatham_Islands).<ref name=GlobIZ/>

In the past, ''Mnesictena'' was included in the genus ''[Udea](/source/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](/source/Ronald_W._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 [caterpillar](/source/caterpillar)s feed on different plants, with ''Mnesictena flavidalis'' being recorded from ''[Muehlenbeckia](/source/Muehlenbeckia)'' ([Polygonaceae](/source/Polygonaceae)), ''M. daiclesalis'' from ''[Veronica macrocarpa](/source/Veronica_macrocarpa)'' ([Plantaginaceae](/source/Plantaginaceae)), and ''M. notata'' as well as ''M. marmarina'' from ''[Urtica](/source/Urtica)'', the latter also from ''[Australina](/source/Australina_(plant))''.<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](/source/holotype) specimen]]
*''[Mnesictena adversa](/source/Mnesictena_adversa)'' <small>(Philpott, 1917)</small>, distributed on New Zealand
*''[Mnesictena antipodea](/source/Mnesictena_antipodea)'' <small>(Salmon in Salmon & Bradley, 1956)</small>, distributed on the SE Antipodes Island
*''[Mnesictena daiclesalis](/source/Mnesictena_daiclesalis)'' <small>(Walker, 1859)</small>, distributed on New Zealand
*''[Mnesictena flavidalis](/source/Mnesictena_flavidalis)'' <small>(Doubleday, 1843)</small>, distributed on New Zealand
*''[Mnesictena marmarina](/source/Mnesictena_marmarina)'' <small>Meyrick, 1884</small>, distributed on New Zealand; [type species](/source/type_species) of the genus
*''[Mnesictena notata](/source/Mnesictena_notata)'' <small>(Butler, 1879)</small>, distributed on New Zealand
*''[Mnesictena pantheropa](/source/Mnesictena_pantheropa)'' <small>(Meyrick, 1884)</small>, distributed on the Chatham Islsnds

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Category:Mnesictena
Category:Crambidae genera
Category:Udeini
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