Sabatinca calliarcha: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Micropterigidae
- Genus
- Sabatinca
- Species
- Sabatinca calliarcha
- Scientific Name
- Sabatinca calliarcha
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sabatinca calliarcha
Sabatinca calliarcha is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is found in two separate areas of New Zealand - the first in the northern parts of the North Island including Great Barrier Island and the second population can be found from the top of the South Island down to Southland. The adults of the species are on the wing from the end of September until the middle of January. The species prefers to inhabit damp forests and larvae likely feed on leafy liverwort species. Adult moths likely feed on the spores of ferns or the pollen of sedge grasses.
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Sibling Taxa
- Sabatinca aemula
- Sabatinca aenea
- Sabatinca aurantissima
- Sabatinca aurella
- Sabatinca bimacula
- Sabatinca calliarcha
- Sabatinca caustica
- Sabatinca chalcophanes
- Sabatinca chrysargyra
- Sabatinca delobeli
- Sabatinca delobelli
- Sabatinca demissa
- Sabatinca doroxena
- Sabatinca heighwayi
- Sabatinca ianthina
- Sabatinca incongruella
- Sabatinca kristenseni
- Sabatinca lucilia
- Sabatinca pluvialis
- Sabatinca quadrijuga
- Sabatinca weheka


