Kiwaia lapillosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Kiwaia
- Species
- Kiwaia lapillosa
- Scientific Name
- Kiwaia lapillosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Kiwaia lapillosa
Kiwaia lapillosa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1924. It is found in New Zealand.
The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are dark slaty fuscous, irregularly sprinkled or mixed with whitish grey. The markings are cloudy, formed by absence of pale mixture. The stigmata are represented by spots, with the plical spot places obliquely before the first discal spot, a thick oblique bar from the costa terminating in these two spots, and an additional spot midway between the plical spot and the base. A grey-whitish, angulated, and more or less distinct transverse shade is present at three-fourths. The hindwings are light grey.
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Sibling Taxa
- Kiwaia aerobatis
- Kiwaia brontophora
- Kiwaia caerulaea
- Kiwaia caerulea
- Kiwaia calaspidea
- Kiwaia cheradias
- Kiwaia contraria
- Kiwaia dividua
- Kiwaia eurybathra
- Kiwaia glaucoterma
- Kiwaia heterospora
- Kiwaia hippeis
- Kiwaia jeanae
- Kiwaia kostjuki
- Kiwaia kumatai
- Kiwaia lapillosa
- Kiwaia lenis
- Kiwaia lithodes
- Kiwaia matermea
- Kiwaia monophragma
- Kiwaia neglecta
- Kiwaia palaearctica
- Kiwaia parapleura
- Kiwaia parvula
- Kiwaia pharetria
- Kiwaia plemochoa
- Kiwaia pumila
- Kiwaia schematica
- Kiwaia spinosa
- Kiwaia thyraula