Pterophorus monospilalis

Pterophorus monospilalis
	Pterophorus monospilalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Pterophorus
Species:	P. monospilalis
Binomial name
	Pterophorus monospilalis; (Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
	Aciptilus monospilalis Walker, 1864; Aciptilia patruelis Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875; Aciptilia lycosema Meyrick, 1884;

Pterophorus monospilalis is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in New Zealand, where it is known from the North and South islands and Stewart Island. The wingspan is 21–23 mm. The head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs are white. The forewings are snow-white with a few brownish-ochreous scales, a blackish dot before the cleft and a minute one on the inner margin before the middle. The hindwings and cilia are snow-white.^[2]

Plume moth carved on pare on display at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection at Landcare Research, Auckland.

The larvae feed on young new tips of Pseudopanax arboreus but have also been recorded on Raukaua species and Schefflera digitata.

References[]

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[1] Lepidoptera of New Zealand

[2] Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

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