Maoritenes cyclobathra is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is endemic in New Zealand.
Taxonomy This species was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907 and originally named Epagoge cyclobathra. George Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1928 book The butterflies and moths of New Zealand under the name Capua cyclobathra.In 1966 John S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Maoritenes. The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are fuscous, tinged with purplish and sprinkled with dark fuscous, as well as suffused with dark ashy fuscous towards the middle of the costa and towards the termen mixed with reddish ochreous and strigulated (finely streaked) with dark fuscous. The hindwings are light grey.Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961; Volume 39, 1906
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