Orocrambus melitastes: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Orocrambus
- Species
- Orocrambus melitastes
- Scientific Name
- Orocrambus melitastes
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Orocrambus melitastes
Orocrambus melitastes is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1909. This species is endemic to New Zealand, where it has been recorded in Southland, Otago and Westland. It is found from the subalpine zone down to sea level.
The wingspan is 17–22 mm. Adults are on wing from October to January.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Orocrambus abditus
- Orocrambus aethonellus
- Orocrambus angustipennis
- Orocrambus apicellus
- Orocrambus callirrhous
- Orocrambus catacaustus
- Orocrambus clarkei
- Orocrambus corruptus
- Orocrambus crenaeus
- Orocrambus cultus
- Orocrambus cyclopicus
- Orocrambus dicrenellus
- Orocrambus enchophorus
- Orocrambus ephorus
- Orocrambus eximia
- Orocrambus flexuosellus
- Orocrambus fugitivellus
- Orocrambus geminus
- Orocrambus haplotomus
- Orocrambus harpophorus
- Orocrambus heliotes
- Orocrambus heteraulus
- Orocrambus horistes
- Orocrambus isochytus
- Orocrambus jansoni
- Orocrambus lectus
- Orocrambus lewisi
- Orocrambus lindsayi
- Orocrambus machaeristes
- Orocrambus melampetrus
- Orocrambus melitastes
- Orocrambus mylites
- Orocrambus oppositus
- Orocrambus ordishi
- Orocrambus ornatus
- Orocrambus paraxenus
- Orocrambus philpotti
- Orocrambus punctellus
- Orocrambus ramosellus
- Orocrambus scoparioides
- Orocrambus scutatus
- Orocrambus simplex
- Orocrambus siriellus
- Orocrambus sophistes
- Orocrambus sophronellus
- Orocrambus thymiastes
- Orocrambus tritonellus
- Orocrambus tuhualis
- Orocrambus ventosus
- Orocrambus vittellus
- Orocrambus vulgaris
- Orocrambus xanthogrammus


















