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Winter Ghost Moth
Cladoxycanus minos
Cladoxycanus is a monotypic genus of moths belonging to the family Hepialidae. It consists of only one species, Cladoxycanus minos, which is endemic to New Zealand. C. minos was first described by George Hudson in 1905.
From the article Cladoxycanus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
Adults of this species are attracted to light and have been collected via a mercury vapour light trap.
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
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Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 387667.