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Issue: Vol. 3341 No. 1: 11 Jun. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-06-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3341.1.5
Page range: 59–63
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 20

Three new species of Hawaiian moths from Kahoolawe island (Lepidoptera: Crambidae & Coleophoridae)

The Urban School of San Francisco, 1563 Page St, San Francisco, CA, 94117 USA, and Department of Integrative Biology, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA
Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 37012, E - 518, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012 USA
Lepidoptera Blastobasini endemic species Hawai'i Kaho'olawe morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of Hawaiian Lepidoptera are described herein: Pigritia uuku sp. nov. (Coleophoridae: Blastobasinae), Orthomecyna keoniae sp. nov. (Crambidae), and Tamsica kawikae sp. nov. (Crambidae) from Kahoolawe Island.

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