Aenetus virescens - Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust
Photo by Olivier Ball. NZ's largest and most spectacular moth which takes 4-5 years from egg to adult, but with no functional mouthparts it lives for only a few days at most. Family. Hepialidae. Biostatus. Endemic. Host Plant. Putaputaweta, kamahi and beech as well as puriri, and some exotic plants such as privet. Egg.
Puriri moth (Aenetus virescens) · iNaturalist NZ
The puriri moth (Aenetus virescens) is a moth of the family Hepialidae, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It is New Zealand's largest moth, with a wingspan of up to 150 mm. It is also called the ghost moth or pepetuna.
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Puriri moth. Synonyms. Hepialus virescens Doubleday, 1843. Biostatus and distribution. This endemic moth is found throughout the North Island of New Zealand. It occurs in habitats with dead wood with suitable fungi for its young caterpillars and living host trees in which the larger caterpillars live in tunnels and graze callous tissue.
Pŭriri moth facts. The pūriri moth is New Zealand’s. BIGGEST moth. A female can grow to up to 15 cm (about as wide as your stretched out hand). Males are a little smaller. Caterpillars start life in the leaf litter and then climb up a tree and make an ‘L’ shaped burrow in the trunk and live there for around 5-7 years.
Aenetus virescens (Puriri moth) - wiki.citscihub.nz
Family: Hepialidae Scientific name: Aenetus virescens Common names: Puriri moth, Pepe tuna; mokoroa, ngutara; pungoungou The Puriri moth is the largest moth in New Zealand and is found only in the North Island. They can be seen September to March. The newly hatched (neonate) caterpillars live on fungi.
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Puriri moth. Māori name: pepe tuna; mokoroa, ngutara; pungoungou. English name: puriri moth. Scientific name: Aenetus virescens (Doubleday in White and Doubleday) Order: Lepidoptera. Family: Hepialidae. is the largest moth in Aotearoa / New Zealand, and is found only on Te Ika a Māui / North Island;
NZ Farm Forestry - A bit of history - Aenetus virescens
Most readers of FH News will be familiar with Aenetus virescens (ghost or puriri moth). The larvae bore in living branches and trunks of a wide variety of indigenous and exotic hardwoods in the North Island (it is not found in the South Island). …
comprehensive revision of the New Zealand ghost moths (Hepialidae). This multi-year project provided a taxonomy for the family that included a much-needed classification of the pasture Porina moths, as well as describing nine new species of Aoraia and establishing the new genus Heloxycanus. The taxonomy was, complemented by detailed
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Puriri moth - Aenetus virescens. Added: 14 Sep 2012 Updated: 30 Apr 2018. This endemic moth is found throughout the North Island of New Zealand. It occurs in habitats with dead wood with suitable fungi for its young caterpillars and living host trees in which the larger caterpillars live in tu... Kawakawa looper - Cleora scriptaria.
Color pattern variation in the puriri moth, Aenetus virescens ...
2017年8月22日 · Many species of Hepialidae are highly variable and often it is impossible to definitively identify specimens based on wing pattern alone. Illustrated examples of extensive wing variation include the Mediterranean species of Gazoryctra, Neohepialiscus, Pharmacis, Phymatopus, and Triodia and South American species of Dalaca, Callipielus, and Aepytus.