Carposina contactella
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Carposina contactella is a moth
of the Carposinidae
family. It is endemic to New Zealand
.
The wingspan
is 15–16mm. The head and thorax are white and the abdomen is grey-whitish. The forewings are elongate, rather narrow and white with a small blackish mark on the base of the costa, a transverse ochreous-yellow line near the base and a light-grey blotch irrorated with dark grey extending along the dorsum and reaching more than half across the wing, containing a yellow-ochreous ridge of scales much marked with black and a yellow-ochreous spot in a white ring, a small blackish spot on the costa, preceded by a black subcostal dot sometimes marked with yellow-ochreous. There are five small spots of blackish irroration on the costa posteriorly, and some suffused grey irroration beneath these. There are also two indistinct ochreous-yellowish dots above the middle of the disc, and an undefined transverse yellowish streak in the disc, surrounded with white, as well as a curved-angulated subterminal streak of blackish irroration, and some grey irroration towards the termen. The hindwings are pale whitish-grey.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the Carposinidae
Carposinidae
Carposinidae, the "fruitworm moths" is a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. These moths are narrower winged than Copromorphidae, with less rounded forewing tips. Males often have conspicuous patches of scales on either surface...
family. It is endemic to New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
.
The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is 15–16mm. The head and thorax are white and the abdomen is grey-whitish. The forewings are elongate, rather narrow and white with a small blackish mark on the base of the costa, a transverse ochreous-yellow line near the base and a light-grey blotch irrorated with dark grey extending along the dorsum and reaching more than half across the wing, containing a yellow-ochreous ridge of scales much marked with black and a yellow-ochreous spot in a white ring, a small blackish spot on the costa, preceded by a black subcostal dot sometimes marked with yellow-ochreous. There are five small spots of blackish irroration on the costa posteriorly, and some suffused grey irroration beneath these. There are also two indistinct ochreous-yellowish dots above the middle of the disc, and an undefined transverse yellowish streak in the disc, surrounded with white, as well as a curved-angulated subterminal streak of blackish irroration, and some grey irroration towards the termen. The hindwings are pale whitish-grey.