| Elachista archaeonoma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Elachistidae |
| Genus: | Elachista |
| Species: | E. archaeonoma |
| Binomial name | |
| Elachista archaeonoma | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Elachista archaeonoma is a species of moth in the family Elachistidae. [1] [2] [3] It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1889. It is endemic to New Zealand.
This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1889 and named Elachista archaeonoma. [4] In 1928 George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand. [5]
Hudson described this species as follows:
The expansion of the wings is about five-sixteenths of an inch. The fore-wings of the male are dark grey densely speckled with paler grey; there are two dull white marks a little before the middle followed by two blackish spots placed on the costa and dorsum and a blackish streak in the disc; there is a marginal series of black dots. The hind-wings are dark grey. In the female the fore-wings are white sprinkled with brown from the base to beyond 4; there is a large blackish-brown blotch near the middle and a smaller blotch at the apex, the two being connected by a slender line in the disc; a number of large black seales is situated on the cilia. The hind-wings are very pale grey. [5]
Adults have been recorded on wing in December and January.
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