Kiwaia lithodes: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Kiwaia
- Species
- Kiwaia lithodes
- Scientific Name
- Kiwaia lithodes
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Kiwaia lithodes
Kiwaia lithodes is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1886. It is found in New Zealand.
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are grey, finely irrorated (sprinkled) with blue whitish. Three discal spots are obscurely darker, the first before the middle, the second on the fold rather before the first and the third in the disc beyond the middle. The hindwings are whitish grey.
The larvae of this species feed on Raoulia australis.
...Kiwaia lithodes in languages:
- English
- Stone Jumper
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Parent Taxon
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






