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Sagephora felix
Sagephora felix is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. This species is endemic to New Zealand and can be found in the north half of the North Island. It inhabits native forest and adults of the species are on the wing from December to May, in July and November.
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Description
This species was described by Meyrick as follows:
♂. 10 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, second joint dark fuscous except apex. Antennae white, with a blackish band at 2⁄3, and tip dark fuscous. (Abdomen broken.) Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; shining snow-white; a dark-fuscous streak along costa from base to 2⁄5, edged below with ochreous-brown; a transverse dark-fuscous spot in disc at 2⁄5, touching extremity of costal streak; an irregular line of scattered dark-fuscous specks surrounded with some faint pale-yellowish suffusion running from fold before this spot near dorsum, and thence as a subterminal line to a fuscous spot on costa at 4⁄5; a rather dark fuscous spot along apical portion of costa : cilia white, on costa barred with fuscous. Hindwings pale whitish-grey; cilia ochreous-whitish.
Range & habitat
This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species has been collected at its type locality Kaeo, as well as at Auckland and Wellington.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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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 396515.