Carposina sanctimonea

Heterocrossa sanctimonea is a moth of the Carposinidae family first described by Charles E. Clarke in 1926.[3][2] It is endemic to New Zealand.[1] This species was originally named Carposina sanctimonea.[4]

Carposina sanctimonea
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H. sanctimonea
Binomial name
Heterocrossa sanctimonea
(Clarke, 1926)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Carposina sanctimonea Clarke, 1926

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The head is whitish, the thorax grey-white, the antennae whitish and the abdomen pale grey. The forewings are elongate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, the costa gently arched, the apex bluntly acute and the termen almost straight. They are pale grey-white with cloudy markings of dark fuscous. The hindwings are pale grey-white.[4]

References

  1. "Heterocrossa sanctimonea (Clarke, 1926)". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  2. John Stewart Dugdale (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 14: 131. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021.
  3. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom animalia : chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. p. 457. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3. OCLC 973607714. OL 25288394M. Wikidata Q45922947.
  4. Clarke, Charles E. (1926). "New Species of Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 56: 418. Retrieved 6 September 2016.


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