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Stathmopoda holochra
Illustration of female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Stathmopodidae
Genus:	Stathmopoda
Species:	S. holochra
Binomial name
Stathmopoda holochra Meyrick, 1889

Stathmopoda holochra is a moth of the family Stathmopodidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1889 using specimens first collected at the Wellington Botanic Garden. It is endemic to New Zealand. The larvae of this species feed on Phormium seed heads.

Description

♀. 14mm. Head, palpi, antennas, and abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. Thorax whitish-ochreous, slightly reddish-tinged. Legs pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, very narrow, broadest near base, long-pointed; pale reddish-ochreous, unicolorous : cilia pale whitish-ochreous-gi'ey. Hind-wings pale whitish-grey, posteriorly ochreous-tinged; cilia pale whitish-ochreous-grey.

References

1. ^ "Stathmopoda holochra Meyrick, 1889". www.nzor.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
2. ^ Edward Meyrick (May 1889). "Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 21: 168. ISSN 1176-6158. Wikidata Q56065895.
3. Dugdale , J. S. (23 September 1988). "Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa". Fauna of New Zealand. 14. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 108. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.14. ISSN 0111-5383. Wikidata Q45083134.
4. J. R. Grehan (January 1990). "Invertebrate survey of Somes Island (Matiu) and Mokopuna Island, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand". New Zealand Entomologist. 13 (1): 62–75. doi:10.1080/00779962.1990.9722595. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q54670113.

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