Archive document showing Riccarton Estate containing Riccarton Bush
Riccarton Bush is in the city of Christchurch in the suburb of Riccarton, New Zealand. The bush is a small remnant (7.8 hectares or 19 acres) of lowland kahikatea floodplain forest on the Canterbury Plains. It has played an important part in the history of entomology in New Zealand with many famous entomologists studying the insects and spiders found there. The order of Lepidoptera has been well studied; of the families found in New Zealand 70% have been collected in the bush.[1]
The majority of families that make up the order of Lepidoptera are moths. This page provides a link to individual species that have been collected from Riccarton Bush.
^Molloy, Brian (1995). Riccarton Bush: Putaringamotu. Christchurch: Riccarton Bush Trust. pp. 263–278.
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RiccartonBush is in the city of Christchurch in the suburb ofRiccarton, New Zealand. The bush is a small remnant (7.8 hectares or 19 acres) of lowland...
Butterflies and Common Mothsof New Zealand. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited. p. 134. Molloy, Brian (1995). RiccartonBush: Putaringamotu. Christchurch:...
Stuart Lindsay (1927). "A Listof the Lepidoptera of Deans's Bush, Riccarton, Canterbury". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute....
genus Anisoplaca in 1988. The male lectotype specimen, collected at RiccartonBush, is held at the Natural History Museum, London. The wingspan is 17–18 mm...
Lindsay, Stewart (1927). "A listof the Lepidoptera of Dean's Bush, Riccarton, Canterbury". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute....
tunnels”. In 2015, some Woodworthia cf. brunnea geckos were relocated into RiccartonBush from the bluffs above Te Rāpaki-o-Te Rakiwhakaputa, as due to the Christchurch...
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