Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Hepialidae Scientific name Aenetus virescens | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Aenetus Rank Species | |
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Similar Aenetus, Puriri, Carpodetus serratus, Ghost moth, Hepialidae | ||
Puriri moth nz
The puriri moth, Aenetus virescens, is a moth of the family Hepialidae, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It is New Zealand's largest moth, with a wingspan of up to 150 mm.
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The moth spends the first five to six years of its life as a grub in a tree trunk (including non-native species such as Eucalyptus), with the last 48 hours of its life as a moth. Footage has been taken of a puriri moth chrysalis hatching over a period of one hour and forty minutes.
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