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Tingena homodoxa
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Tingena homodoxa

Tingena homodoxa is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the southern parts of the South Island. It inhabits open grassy slopes and is on the wing from November until January.

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Description

Meyrick originally described this species as follows:

Fore wings whitish-grey, closely irrorated with darker, a mark on fold and another on anal angle hardly darker; hind wings grey. Meyrick in 1884 described this species as follows:

Male, female. — 15+1⁄2-17+1⁄2- mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs light grey finely irrorated with dark fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex pointed, hindmargin very oblique, hardly rounded; pale whitish-grey, very finely and closely irrorated with dark fuscous-grey; indications of an inwardly oblique dark fuscous mark beneath fold about 1⁄3, and a perpendicular mark on anal angle, both almost obsolete : cilia grey-whitish, with several rows of dark fuscous-grey points. Hindwings grey, in female rather darker; cilia light grey, with a cloudy darker basal line.

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Range & habitat

This species is endemic to New Zealand and has been found on the lower slopes of Mount Aurum near Lake Wakatipu as well as at Ben Lomond.

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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 515154.