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Pyrgotis humilis
Pyrgotis humilis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1930 from a specimen collected by C. E. Clarke on Mount Maungatua in Otago.
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Description
Philpott described this species as follows
♂. 12 mm. Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous. Palpi ochreous. Antennae ochreous annulated with black, ciliations in ♂ 1+1⁄2. Abdomen bronzy fuscous. Legs fuscous mixed with ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa strongly arched, apex rounded, termen subsinuate, oblique; bright ochreous; suffusedly purplish fuscous towards termen: fringes ochreous mixed with fuscous. Hindwings fuscous: fringes fuscous tipped with ochreous and with a darker basal line. Philpott stated that this species was similar in appearance to Maoritenes modesta but that P. humilis could be distinguished based on its antennal characteristics.
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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 407642.