Carposina contactella

Carposina contactella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Carposinidae
Genus: Carposina
Species: C. contactella
Binomial name
Carposina contactella
(Walker, 1866)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tinea contactella Walker, 1866
  • Carposina amalodes Meyrick, 1911
  • Heterocrossa contactella

Carposina contactella is a moth of the Carposinidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand.

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The head and thorax are white and the abdomen is grey-whitish. The forewings are elongate, rather narrow and white with a small blackish mark on the base of the costa, a transverse ochreous-yellow line near the base and a light-grey blotch irrorated (speckled) with dark grey extending along the dorsum and reaching more than half across the wing, containing a yellow-ochreous ridge of scales much marked with black and a yellow-ochreous spot in a white ring, a small blackish spot on the costa, preceded by a black subcostal dot sometimes marked with yellow-ochreous. There are five small spots of blackish irroration on the costa posteriorly, and some suffused grey irroration beneath these. There are also two indistinct ochreous-yellowish dots above the middle of the disc, and an undefined transverse yellowish streak in the disc, surrounded with white, as well as a curved-angulated subterminal streak of blackish irroration, and some grey irroration towards the termen. The hindwings are pale whitish-grey.

References

  1. "Lepidoptera of New Zealand". Landcareresearch.co.nz. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
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