Houdinia flexilissima

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gelechioidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Superfamilia: Gelechioidea

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