Eranistis pandora
| Eranistis pandora | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Neoschoenobia |
| Species: | N. pandora
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| Binomial name | |
| Neoschoenobia pandora Meyrick, 1910
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Eranistis pandora is a moth of the family Crambidae.[1] It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1910.[2] This species is endemic to New Zealand.
Description
Meyrick described this species as follows:
♀. 22mm. Head and thorax light brownish-ochreous. Labial palpi light brownish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous, white towards base beneath, tip white. Maxillary palpi pale ochreous banded with blackish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched towards apex, apex obtuse, termen obliquely bowed; brownish-ochreous, thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous; costa suffused with darkfuscous irroration towards base; lines represented by very undefined thick shades of dark-fuscous irroration, first about ¼, slightly curved, second about ¾, nearly parallel to termen, space beyond this more irrorated with dark fuscous. Hindwings ochreous-white. Undersurface of forewings and hindwings suffusedly whitish, with a bent dark-grey post-median line becoming obsolete dorsally.[2]
References
- ↑ "Eranistis pandora Meyrick, 1910". Biota of New Zealand. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 No label or title -- debug: Q111017804, p. 70, Wikidata Q111017804Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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