About Carystoterpa fingens (Walker, 1851)
Scientific name: Carystoterpa fingens (Walker, 1851). Walker’s original description of the species reads as follows: Yellow and shining; head and thorax are flat. The head is concave along its hind border, more convex towards the front, where it bears a slight notch on each side; its length is less than half its breadth. The face is convex, nearly oval, with a punctured central stripe. Nine shallow oblique cross ridges lie on each side of this stripe; the epistoma is slightly keeled. The mouth is tawny and extends to the middle hips; the maxillae are ferruginous. The thorax is punctured, slightly impressed across the front, with a pitchy stripe that extends on each side from the eye to the base of the forewing. The abdomen is tawny, and the tips of the feet are pitchy. Forewings are whitish, pale tawny towards the hind border, with an undulating ferruginous stripe that runs through the disc from the base to the tip. Hindwings are colourless, with pale yellow veins. Body length is 2 lines; wing length is 6 lines. C. fingens is very variable in overall appearance. This species is endemic to New Zealand, and has been observed on the North, South, and Stewart Islands, as well as on many of New Zealand’s offshore islands. This species typically inhabits coastal localities.
