Taxonavigation
Taxonavigation: Gelechioidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Pterolonchidae
Genus: Houdinia
Species: Houdinia flexilissima
Name
Houdinia flexilissima Hoare, Dugdale & Watts, 2006
Type data
- Holotype: NZAC
- Type kind: male
- Type locality: Torehape wetland (mine site) (37.19S, 175.27E), New Zealand WO
- Type host: Sporadanthus ferrugineus, larva/pupa in stem
- Paratypes (several, both sexes)
Primary references
- Hoare, R.; Dugdale, J.; Watts, C. 2006: The world’s thinnest caterpillar? A new genus and species of Batrachedridae (Lepidoptera) from Sporadanthus ferrugineus (Restionaceae), a threatened New Zealand plant. Invertebrate systematics 20(5): 571–583. DOI: 10.1071/IS06009 Reference page.
References
- de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Clarkson, B.D.; Clarkson, B.R. 1999: Taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of Sporadanthus (Restionaceae) in New Zealand. New Zealand journal of botany, 37: 413–431. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1999.9512645