Mnesarchaea is a

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of "

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

primitive

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s" in the family Mnesarchaeidae. This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This genus was first described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...

in 1885.

Species

These species belong to the genus ''Mnesarchaea'': * '' Mnesarchaea fallax'' Philpott, 1927 * '' Mnesarchaea fusca'' Philpott, 1922 * '' Mnesarchaea hudsoni'' Gibbs, 2019 * '' Mnesarchaea paracosma'' Meyrick, 1885

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1139423 Moths of New Zealand Mnesarchaeoidea Endemic fauna of New Zealand Moth genera Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Endemic moths of New Zealand