Oxyethira waipoua
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| Oxyethira waipoua | |
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| Male holotype specimen from the collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Trichoptera |
| Family: | Hydroptilidae |
| Genus: | Oxyethira |
| Species: | O. waipoua |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxyethira waipoua Wise, 1998 | |
Oxyethira waipoua 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 1996 from a section of the Waipoua River flowing through the Waipoua Forest of Northland Region, New Zealand.[2][3] Wise named the species after the forest.[2]