Maoritenes modesta is a species of moth in the family Tortricidae first described by Alfred Philpott in 1930. This species is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy This species was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1930 using a specimen collected by Charles Edwin Clarke in Waiho Gorge in Westland. Philpott originally named the species Pyrgotis modesta. In 1966 John S. Dugdale placed this species in the genus Maoritenes. The male holotype specimen is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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