''Tawhitia pentadactylus'' is a
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 ...
in the family
Crambidae. It was described by
Zeller Zeller, meaning both prisoner and monk in German, may refer to:
Places
*Zeller Ache, a river of Upper Austria
*Zeller Bach (Isar), a river of Bavaria, Germany, tributary of the Isar
* Zeller Bach (Memminger Ach), a river of Bavaria, Germany, tribut ...
in 1863. It is found in
Australia
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(
Tasmania
)
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, subdi ...
) and in
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 ...
, where it has been recorded in South Island and the southern part of the North Island. The habitat consists of subalpine swamps.
The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is 29–40 mm for males and 30–36 mm for females. Adults are on wing in October and from December to March.
New Zealand Journal of Zoology (Aug 1975)
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References
Crambinae
Moths described in 1863
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