Zelleria porphyraula

[2] The male holotype specimen was collected in Wellington in April by George Hudson when beating the species Podocarpus totara.

[2] The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.

Palpi pale grey sprinkled black.

Thorax dark bluish-grey, a central whitish streak, tegulae purple.

Forewings narrow, costa arched towards pointed apex; bronzy-greyish-ochreous, slightly orange-tinged; costal edge greyish-purple, with some scattered small black dots; sub-costal and median suffused greyish-purple streaks, confluent towards base and terminating in an apical blotch, median interrupted by a whitish patch above tornus; suffused white dots on sub-costal representing discal stigmata and one on median obliquely before first discal representing plical; an irregular white streak above dorsum from near base to middle of wing, sprinkled or dotted black, dorsum beneath this narrowly brownish-ochreous from base to tornus, dorsal edge towards base mottled black; a few white scales towards apex: cilia bronzy-brown, on tornal area light greyish, tips round apex black, at origin of costal cilia some white scales.

Illustration of Z. porphyraula .