Izatha picarella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Xyloryctidae
- Genus
- Izatha
- Species
- Izatha picarella
- Scientific Name
- Izatha picarella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Izatha picarella
Izatha picarella is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is known from the Nelson and Marlborough districts of the northern South Island.
This species was first described by Francis Walker in 1864.
The wingspan is 22.5–28.5 mm for males and 20.5–28 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to January.
Larvae have been reared from dead wood of apple (probably Malus domesticus) and from dead branches of Melicytus ramiflorus.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Izatha acmonias
- Izatha amorbas
- Izatha apodoxa
- Izatha attactella
- Izatha austera
- Izatha balanophora
- Izatha blepharidota
- Izatha caustopa
- Izatha churtoni
- Izatha convulsella
- Izatha copiosella
- Izatha dasydisca
- Izatha dulcior
- Izatha epiphanes
- Izatha florida
- Izatha gekkonella
- Izatha gibbsi
- Izatha haumu
- Izatha heroica
- Izatha hudsoni
- Izatha huttonii
- Izatha katadiktya
- Izatha lignyarcha
- Izatha manubriata
- Izatha mesoschista
- Izatha metadelta
- Izatha minimira
- Izatha mira
- Izatha notodoxa
- Izatha oleariae
- Izatha peroneanella
- Izatha phaeoptila
- Izatha picarella
- Izatha plumbosa
- Izatha prasophyta
- Izatha psychra
- Izatha quinquejacula
- Izatha rigescens
- Izatha spheniscella
- Izatha taingo
- Izatha toreuma
- Izatha voluptuosa
- Izatha walkerae