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Kiwaia caerulaea
Kiwaia caerulea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was first described by George Hudson in 1925. It is endemic to New Zealand.
From the article Kiwaia caerulea on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Hudson described this species as follows:
The expansion of the wings is barely 1⁄2 inch. The fore-wings are pale blue with slaty-black markings; a broad oblique band at base; another oblique band before the middle, containing plical and first discal stigmata; a third considerably diffused band at 2⁄3, containing a large black discal spot; a longitudinal band along dorsum joining the above described transverse bands; the outer third of wing, which is pale blue, has a few scattered slaty-black scales, some forming indefinite dots along costa and termen. The hind-wings are very pale greyish-ochceous. All the cilia are greyish-ochreous. The palpi are dull white, with apex of terminal joint blackish. The head is pale greyish-blue, the thorax slaty-black and the abdomen greyish-brown, with apical tuft greyish-ochreous. The legs are greyish-ochreous barred with black.
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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 391203.