The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are white, mixed with light grey and with some fine scattered black scales. There is a suffused blackish spot on the costa at the base. The first line is white and blackish-margined and the second line is whitish, margined with dark anteriorly. The hindwings are very pale whitish-grey. The lunule, postmedian line and hindmargin are slightly darker. Adults have been recorded on wing in January.[5]
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eudonia, philetaera, moth, family, crambidae, named, edward, meyrick, 1884, meyrick, gave, description, adult, moth, 1885, endemic, zealand, femalescientific, classificationdomain, eukaryotakingdom, animaliaphylum, arthropodaclass, insectaorder, lepidopterafam. Eudonia philetaera is a moth in the family Crambidae 3 It was named by Edward Meyrick in 1884 4 2 Meyrick gave a description of the adult moth in 1885 5 It is endemic to New Zealand 1 6 Eudonia philetaeraFemaleScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ArthropodaClass InsectaOrder LepidopteraFamily CrambidaeGenus EudoniaSpecies E philetaeraBinomial nameEudonia philetaera Meyrick 1884 1 Synonyms 2 Scoparia philetaera Meyrick 1884The wingspan is about 19 mm The forewings are white mixed with light grey and with some fine scattered black scales There is a suffused blackish spot on the costa at the base The first line is white and blackish margined and the second line is whitish margined with dark anteriorly The hindwings are very pale whitish grey The lunule postmedian line and hindmargin are slightly darker Adults have been recorded on wing in January 5 References edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eudonia philetaera a b NZOR Name Details Eudonia philetaera Meyrick 1884 www nzor org nz Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd Retrieved 26 January 2018 a b Dugdale J S 1988 Lepidoptera annotated catalogue and keys to family group taxa PDF Fauna of New Zealand 14 157 Retrieved 26 January 2018 Gordon Dennis P ed 2010 New Zealand inventory of biodiversity Kingdom animalia chaetognatha ecdysozoa ichnofossils Vol 2 p 458 ISBN 978 1 877257 93 3 OCLC 973607714 OL 25288394M Wikidata Q45922947 Meyrick Edward 1884 Descriptions of New Zealand Micro Lepidoptera New Zealand Journal of Science 2 235 237 Retrieved 26 January 2018 via Biodiversity Heritage Library a b Meyrick E 1885 Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera IV Scopariidae Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 17 68 120 Retrieved 26 January 2018 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain GlobIZ search Global Information System on Pyraloidea Retrieved 2014 07 15 This Scopariinae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Eudonia philetaera amp oldid 1188335498, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
