Pararrhaptica subsenescens

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Rediscoveries and Presumed Extinctions of Hawaiian Leaf-roller Moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae).

Presumed extinct. This species is known from a single female collected by Perkins in 1893 on Molokaʻi (Walsingham 1907). No further locality data are given on the label, but the date (5 viii 1893) corresponds to a journal entry by Perkins from “near Waikolu” (Evenhuis 2007). We have collected in this general area and along the Hanalilolilo Trail but have not found this species. Like other Pararrhaptica, it likely fed on leaves and shoots of Myrsine spp. (Primulaceae).

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Patterns of extinction across Hawaiian Lepidoptera offer lessons from a diverse, neglected, and vulnerable endemic fauna.


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