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| Holotype specimen held at Auckland Museum | |
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| Species: | N. parvitis |
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Nola parvitis is a moth of the family Nolidae. [2] It was first described by George Howes in 1917.
This species was first described by George Howes in 1917 and was originally named Adeixis parvitis. [3] In 1927 Alfred Philpott placed this species in the genus Celama. [4] In 2010 this species was listed under the genus Nola in the New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. [5] [2]
It is endemic to New Zealand. [4] Specimens have been found in Broad Bay, Otago and Aniseed Valley in Nelson. [4] A specimen was also collected south east of Te Anau where it was described by Charles E. Clarke as being a rare moth that was taken in December amongst Leptospermum . [6] This species has also been collected in December in the Dansey ecological district, near Kakanui, on Helichrysum aggregatum . [7]
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