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Houdinia Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C., 2006

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Houdinia Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C., 2006: 572–575
Houdinia Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C., 2006
Hoare, R.J.B.; Dugdale, J.S.; Watts, C. 2006: The world’s thinnest caterpillar? A new genus and species of Batrachedridae (Lepidoptera) from Sporadanthus ferrugineus (Restionaceae), a threatened New Zealand plant. Invertebrate Systematics 20(5): 571-583.

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Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C.
Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C.
Hoare, R.J.B.; Dugdale, J.S.; Watts, C. 2006: The world’s thinnest caterpillar? A new genus and species of Batrachedridae (Lepidoptera) from Sporadanthus ferrugineus (Restionaceae), a threatened New Zealand plant. Invertebrate Systematics 20(5): 571-583.
2006
572–575
ICZN
Houdinia Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C., 2006
Houdinia flexilissima Hoare, Dugdale & Watts, 2006
genus
Houdinia
The genus is named after the renowned escapologist Harry Houdini (1874–1926). The name alludes not only to the remarkable metamorphosis of the attenuate larva and the adult’s escape from the tight confines of the Sporadanthus stem, but also to the manner in which the species itself escaped detection by entomologists for so long

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Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterolonchidae
Houdinia

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Houdinia Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C., 2006
Houdinia 2006
Heikkila, M., Mutanen, M., Kekkonen, M., Kaila, L. (2014)
Pterolonchidae Meyrick, 1918
Houdinia Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C., 2006
Houdinia 2006
Hoare, R.J.B.; Dugdale, J.S.; Watts, C. (2006)
Houdinia Hoare, R.J.B., Dugdale, J.S., Watts, C., 2006

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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Etymology
The genus is named after the renowned escapologist Harry Houdini (1874–1926). The name alludes not only to the remarkable metamorphosis of the attenuate larva and the adult’s escape from the tight confines of the Sporadanthus stem, but also to the manner in which the species itself escaped detection by entomologists for so long
Hoare, R.J.B.; Dugdale, J.S.; Watts, C. 2006: The world’s thinnest caterpillar? A new genus and species of Batrachedridae (Lepidoptera) from Sporadanthus ferrugineus (Restionaceae), a threatened New Zealand plant. Invertebrate Systematics 20(5): 571-583.

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83b60a3e-dcd6-492d-9d02-356c36aa8097
scientific name
Names_NZAC
8 March 2011
30 October 2023
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