The Frosted Phoenix

The critter this week is the Frosted Phoenix, dubbed New Zealand’s most enigmatic moth. Extremely rare, only ten specimens have ever been found - the last one in 1959!

Illustration from Hudson's 1928 Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand.

Hudson's original specimen in the Natural History Museum in London

Female Titanomis sisyrota photographed by Birgit E. Rhode, [CC BY Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua]

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