Oxyethira ahipara is a species of caddisfly belonging to the family Hydroptilidae.

[1] The species was first described by Keith Arthur John Wise in 1998, and is endemic to New Zealand.

The species was identified by Wise in 1998, based on a specimens collected by Wise in 1983 from the Upper Hunahuna Stream in the Ahipara Plateau of Northland Region, New Zealand.

[2] O. ahipara is a small species coloured dark-brown, with apically attenuated wings with a fringe of long hairs.

[2] The species can be differentiated from other Oxyethira due to the long coiled spring on the aedeagus, as well as its wing colour pattern.