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Glyphipterix metasticta
Glyphipterix metasticta is a species of sedge moth in the genus Glyphipterix. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is endemic to New Zealand.
From the article Glyphipterix metasticta on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Meyrick described this species as follows:
♂♀. 11-12 mm. Head and thorax bronzy - fuscous sprinkled with dark fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, with ctwo rings on second joint, and two rings and an anterior streak on apical portion of terminal joint blackish. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 7 and 8 stalked ; in ♂ ochreous-fuscous, sometimes partly suffused with bronzy-ochreous, in ♀ dark fuscous with a cloudy whitish streak along dorsum and posterior half obscurely marked with undefined whitish strigulae, partly edged with blackish ; second discal stigma round, blackish, sometimes with a smaller similar dot before and above it ; two or three short whitish strigulae from costa posteriorly, in ♂ very undefined, in ♀ longer and blackish-edged : cilia fuscous, on termen white with a blackish basal line. Hindwings and cilia rather dark grey, darker in ♀.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 389829.