Kiwaia parapleura | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Kiwaia |
Species: | K. parapleura |
Binomial name | |
Kiwaia parapleura (Meyrick, 1886) | |
Synonyms | |
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Kiwaia parapleura is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1886. It is found in New Zealand. [1]
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a broad pale whitish-ochreous streak along the inner margin from the base to the apex, occupying nearly half of the wing. There are three indistinct small black discal spots, sometimes obsolete, the first in the middle, the second on the lower margin of the dark fuscous portion very obliquely before the first and the third in the disc beyond middle. The hindwings are whitish grey. [2]
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Trachypepla leucoplanetis is a moth of the family Oecophoridae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1883. It is endemic to New Zealand and has been collected in both the North and South Islands. It is the smallest moth species in the genus Trachypepla and the patterns on the forewings of adults are variable in appearance. It inhabits native forest and bush and the larvae feed on leaf litter. Adults are on the wing from October until February. T. leucoplanetis is regarded as being rarely observed and has been collected via the beating of foliage.
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