Meterana pauca
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Meterana |
Species: | M. pauca
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Binomial name | |
Meterana pauca (Philpott, 1910)
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Meterana pauca is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to New Zealand.[1] It was described by Philpott in 1910 from two specimens held at the Otago Museum collected in the Wairarapa and a specimen he had collected in Wallacetown.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Meterana pauca (Philpott, 1910)". www.nzor.org.nz. Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
- ^ Philpott, Alfred (1910). "Description of a New Species of Moth". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 42: 544 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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- Specimens held at Auckland War Memorial Museum