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Frosted Phoenixes
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Frosted Phoenixes

Titanomis

Titanomis is a genus of moth containing the single species Titanomis sisyrota, the Frosted Phoenix, which is only known from New Zealand. It is an extremely rare species with only 10 reliable records. Furthermore, taxonomists have difficulty placing it within an existing superfamily. Although the species is thought to be endemic to New Zealand, it might also be a sporadic immigrant.

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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 378408.