#iNaturalist

Here's another elegant NZ moth for you. This one's called the Alpine Treasure Owlet (Ichneutica maya).

It's mostly seen up in the mountains in the South Island but also in the mountains of the lower North Island. I saw this one up at Boyle Village in the North Canterbury Southern Alps.

As is the case with many NZ moths, the "life history in the wild of this species is unknown, nor has its larval host species been confirmed" (quoting its Wikipedia page, which is referencing Robert Hoare's 2019 Fauna Series revision of the genus). We've got 144 observations of it so far on #iNaturalist.

inaturalist.nz/observations/34
flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon

#mothodon #Lepidoptera #moths #Noctuidae #Ichneutica #nz #entomology

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