Euchersadaula lathriopa is a moth of the family Oecophoridae.[3] It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1905.[2][4] This species is endemic to New Zealand.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Euchersadaula |
| Species: | E. lathriopa
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Taxonomy
editThis species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1905 using specimens collected in Wellington, Nelson and the Mount Arthur plateau in January.[4]
Description
editMeyrick described this species was described as follows:
♂. 14-16 mm. Head and thorax brown. Palpi brownish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous, extreme tips of second and terminal joints whitish. Antennae dark fuscous, ciliations 1+1⁄2, even. Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; light reddish-fuscous, irregularly sprinkled with brown and dark fuscous ; edge of basal patch indicated by a very obscure pale acutely angulated narrow fascia ; stigmata dark fuscous, very undefined, plical rather obliquely beyond first discal ; a subterminal series of undefined dark fuscous dots, indented beneath costa ; a series of undefined dark fuscous dots along posterior part of costa and termen : cilia whitish-fuscous, tinged with reddish, with a grey postmedian shade. Hind-wings dark fuscous, lighter towards base ; cilia grey, with dark grey basal shade.[4]
Distribution
editThis species is found throughout the North Island and as far south as Christchurch in the South Island.[5]
Habitat
editThis species inhabits native forest.[5]
Behaviour
editAdult moths are on the wing in January.[5]
References
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- ^ a b "Euchersadaula lathriopa (Meyrick, 1905)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ^ a b John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 91. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
- ^ Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
- ^ a b c Edward Meyrick (15 July 1905). "XII. Notes on New Zealand Lepidoptera". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 53 (2): 237. doi:10.1111/J.1365-2311.1905.TB02451.X. ISSN 0035-8894. Wikidata Q54553180.
- ^ a b c George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand, Illustrator: George Hudson, Wellington: Ferguson and Osborn Limited, p. 273, LCCN 88133764, OCLC 25449322, Wikidata Q58593286
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