Post by alexanderlang on Mar 20, 2021 15:04:11 GMT
Hawai'i Islands: Maui
described in 1940, the recorded host plant does not exist at the type locality or in the vicinity of it, and this species was never recorded since and might well be extinct
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
described in 1940, the recorded host plant does not exist at the type locality or in the vicinity of it, and this species was never recorded since and might well be extinct
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
