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New Zealand Blue (Zizina oxleyi)Observer
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Active in open grasslands where exotic clovers are larval hostplant; here town road verges
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Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae)Observer
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Dead on main road through Amberley
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Cnephasia paternaObserver
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Endemic to Banks Peninsula; diurnal Autumn emergence: locally abundant males and probably short-winged flightless females: Summit snow Tussock grassland of low alpine Banks Peninsula 750-800m
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Asaphodes abrogataObserver
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Common and active in open grasslands adjacent to Lake Forsyth and Birdlings Flat on Kaitorete Spit on sunny day
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Winter Copper (Lycaena 'canterbury common copper')Observer
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Several near Birdlings Flat over Scrambling pohuehue and taking nectar from adjacent yarrow flowers on sunny calm morning
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Greylined Featherfoot (Stathmopoda plumbiflua)Observer
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On shop window by day
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Larvae on Dichondra; adult on wall by day at petrol station
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Greater Orange Underwing (Dasyuris anceps)Observer
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Sunbathing on road at Pass 920m
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Many in snow Tussock grasslands at Danseys Pass 930m
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Common Tussock Butterfly (Argyrophenga antipodum)Observer
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Abundant at Danseys Pass in snow Tussock dominated community: 930m
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Summer Porina (Wiseana copularis)Observer
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On Hotel wall by light 580m ; maybe this species
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Rusty Dotted Triangle (Mnesictena flavidalis)Observer
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Shop window in Naseby: I’ve reared species from pohuehue a few times: abundant species in shrublands and forest edges
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Plantain Moth (Scopula rubraria)Observer
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On Saltpans with larval hostplant Plantago
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Barred Pink Carpet (Xanthorhoe semifissata)Observer
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Female dead on shop frontage ; larvae on crucifers
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Physetica phriciasObserver
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Larvae specialist on Matagouri: dead in shop Alexandra
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Cotton Web Spinner (Achyra affinitalis)Observer
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On shop window dead in Alexandra
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Scoparia halopisObserver
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Shop window by day in downtown Queenstown
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Lycaena Butterflies (Genus Lycaena)Observer
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Undescribed Boulder Copper from gravel shore of Lake Te Anau over Mat pohuehue
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Stigmella erysibodeaObserver
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Larval mines numerous on Olearia arborescens in Oban area: I thinks it’s this species
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Senecio Leaf Miner Moth (Stigmella ogygia)Observer
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Away from books so unsure of herbaceous Senecio speciality miner
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Fireweed Jet (Asterivora colpota)Observer
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Larval sign on Senecio minima in Oban roadsides of this small darkly coloured diurnal choreutid moth
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Asaphodes aegrotaObserver
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Checking spider webs around Oban township for Frosted Phoenix moth and found this wonderful geometrid in one: reminds me of my boyhood growing up in Invercargill where I reared this moth from caterpillars feeding on our lawn daisy leaves
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Slender Owlet Moth (Rhapsa scotosialis)Observer
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While searching for Frosted Phoenix moth came across this elegant noctuid on wall in Oban township on Stewart Island
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Mistletoe Miner (Zelleria sphenota)Observer
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Larval leaf mines numerous on Ileostylus micranthus in Oban township
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Diurnal moth with pohuehue leaf mining larvae; abundant here on Stewart Island
