Aoraia aurimaculata — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Hepialidae/Aoraia

At a glance

Occurrence records52

Data sources4

Biological traits0

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources4 archives

Databases and archives Aoraia aurimaculata's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility52 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page2 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF52 records

01Narrative

Aoraia aurimaculata is a species of moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Alfred Philpott in 1914 from a specimen collected at The Hermitage, Mount Cook by F. S. Oliver. This holotype specimen is now lost. A. aurimaculata is endemic to New Zealand, where it is found along the Southern Alps and western Fiordland in cool temperate to subalpine forests and lower penalpine shrubland. The wingspan is 62–67 mm for males and 85–94 mm for females. Adults are on wing from February to May.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type52 records

Wild obs. + sensor5

Museum / vouchered47

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO52 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 3≤1 km 1

4 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor5

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy96% within 1 km

≤1 km 25≤10 km 1

26 georeferenced · 21 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence47

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions1 of 3 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
MWLRlocation not on record	26
New Zealand Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record	20
Auckland, NZ	1

3 institutions · 47 of 47 vouchered records shown