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Holotype and allotype Locheutis fusca specimens held at Auckland Museum | |
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Species: | L. fusca
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Locheutis fusca Philpott, 1930
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Locheutis fusca is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. [2] This species was discovered on 16 January 1930 by Alfred Philpott in the Tongariro National Park. [3] L. fusca was described by him later in that same year. It is endemic to New Zealand. [1]
This moth is 13 - 14mm in size. L. fusca can be distinguished from the similar looking species Locheutis pulla as L. fusca has much longer hairs on its antenna. It is also has a much less coppery sheen to its wings than Locheutis vagata. [1]
Philpott recorded it as being common amongst Beech forest on the banks of the Whakapapa River. [1]
Locheutis fusca | |
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Holotype and allotype Locheutis fusca specimens held at Auckland Museum | |
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Species: | L. fusca
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Locheutis fusca Philpott, 1930
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Locheutis fusca is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. [2] This species was discovered on 16 January 1930 by Alfred Philpott in the Tongariro National Park. [3] L. fusca was described by him later in that same year. It is endemic to New Zealand. [1]
This moth is 13 - 14mm in size. L. fusca can be distinguished from the similar looking species Locheutis pulla as L. fusca has much longer hairs on its antenna. It is also has a much less coppery sheen to its wings than Locheutis vagata. [1]
Philpott recorded it as being common amongst Beech forest on the banks of the Whakapapa River. [1]