Post by alexanderlang on Mar 20, 2021 15:00:39 GMT
Hawai'i Islands: O'ahu
just described in 2021, but known only from about 100 years old specimens formerly misidentified as another species, not recorded since then
source: Shigeki Kobayashi; Chris A. Johns; Akito Y. Kawahara: Revision of the Hawaiian endemic leaf-mining moth genus Philodoria Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): its conservation status, host plants and descriptions of thirteen new species. Zootaxa 4944(1): 1-715. 2021
just described in 2021, but known only from about 100 years old specimens formerly misidentified as another species, not recorded since then
source: Shigeki Kobayashi; Chris A. Johns; Akito Y. Kawahara: Revision of the Hawaiian endemic leaf-mining moth genus Philodoria Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): its conservation status, host plants and descriptions of thirteen new species. Zootaxa 4944(1): 1-715. 2021
