Platyptilia campsiptera

P. campsiptera was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907 from a specimen collected by George Vernon Hudson in the Humboldt Range at approximately 1100m.{{Cite Q|Q110404133|pages= 112-113}} In 1928 Hudson also described and illustrated the species.{{Cite Q|Q58593286|pages=208)}} The male holotype is held at the Natural History Museum, London.{{Cite Q|Q45083134|pages=133}}

Meyrick described the species as follows:

{{blockquote|♂︎ 17 mm. Head and thorax yellowish- white, metapleura with an oblique black streak, frontal cone of scales moderately long. Palpi {{frac|3|1|2}}, white, apical {{frac|2|3}} externally irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale whitish-yellow, with a black lateral dot near base, and a few black lateral scales posteriorly. Legs white, banded with dark fuscous. Forewings cleft from {{frac|3|4}}, upper segment rather narrow, apex produced, pointed, lower segment much broader, posteriorly dilated; whitish, tinged with pale yellow; costa towards base shortly strigulated with fuscous irroration; a small triangular fuscous spot irrorated with dark fuscous on costa before fissure, not reaching across first segment, and a smaller similar mark on costa between this and apex : cilia ochreous-whitish, spotted with fuscous round lower angle of first segment, and upper angle and termen of second, with a small black scale-tooth on dorsum at {{frac|2|3}}. Hindwings reddish-fuscous; cilia whitish, slightly reddish-tinged, with a blackish basal mark on lower half of termen of first segment, and mere traces of black scales in middle of dorsum of third segment.}}

Hudson noted that when resting P. campsiptera holds its forewing second digit downwards and almost at right angles to the first digit.

It is endemic to New Zealand.{{cite web|title=Platyptilia campsiptera Meyrick, 1907|url=http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/923a2915-f0a3-4f6c-a947-862d3deea29b|website=www.nzor.org.nz|publisher=Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd|access-date=6 May 2018}} As well as at its type locality, the species has been collected at Ben Lomond,{{cite web|title=Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12274|url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-178046|publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum|access-date=6 May 2018}} Andersons Bay{{cite web|title=Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12275|url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-181524|publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum|access-date=6 May 2018}} and Colac Bay.{{cite web|title=Platyptilia campsiptera AMNZ12276|url=http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-143247|publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum|access-date=6 May 2018}} It has also been collected at McKinnon Pass.{{Cite Q|Q109420935|pages=429}}

This species has the "Nationally Vulnerable" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.{{Cite Q|Q105981227|pages=7}}

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Category:Moths described in 1907

Category:Platyptilia

Category:Endangered biota of New Zealand

Category:Taxa named by Edward Meyrick

Category:Endemic moths of New Zealand