Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Copromorphidae Scientific name Isonomeutis restincta | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Isonomeutis Rank Species | |
Isonomeutis restincta, the marbled snouter, is a moth of the Copromorphidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it known from the Northland and Auckland districts and in Pureora Forest.
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The head is brownish, while the sides of the crown are sprinkled with whitish. The palpi are brownish sprinkled with dark fuscous and the thorax is brownish. The abdomen is rather dark fuscous, mixed laterally with white and on edges of two basal segments. The forewings are white-brownish, irregularly and coarsely sprinkled with dark fuscous.
The life history is unknown, but probably it is a scale insect predator like Isonomeutis amauropa.
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