About Pyroderces aellotricha (Meyrick, 1889)
The scientific name of this species is Pyroderces aellotricha (Meyrick, 1889). Meyrick's original description of the species is as follows: Both males and females have a wingspan of 10–12 mm. The head and thorax are reddish-ochreous, and the face is ochreous-whitish. The palpi are white; the second joint has three ochreous rings, and the terminal joint has three black rings. The antennae are white, ringed with black. The abdomen is grey, and is pale-ochreous towards the base. The legs are whitish, and banded with blackish. The forewings are elongate, very narrow, and long-pointed; vein 5 is separate, and vein 6 is present. The forewings are reddish-ochreous, and tend to become whitish-ochreous around markings and towards the base of the inner margin; markings are ochreous-white, and are closely irrorated with black. There is an irregular oblique fascia starting from 1/4 of the costa, which does not reach the inner margin, and emits a short streak from its posterior edge above the middle. There is an irregular somewhat 8-shaped spot in the middle of the disc, from the upper part of which an irregular streak extends to the costa before the apex. An irregular ochreous-whitish streak runs along the hindmargin from the apex to the anal angle, and there is a black apical dot. The cilia are light ochreous-greyish, and are reddish-ochreous around the apex, with a blackish basal line and two blackish apical hooks. The hindwings have veins 6 and 7 stalked; they are grey, and their cilia are pale-grey with an ochreous tinge. This species is distributed in New Zealand, including the Kermadec Islands, Tasmania (Australia), and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Aside from its type locality, specimens have also been collected in Whangārei.
