Hyposmocoma tantala
| Hyposmocoma tantala | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cosmopterigidae |
| Genus: | Hyposmocoma |
| Species: | H. tantala |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyposmocoma tantala Kawahara & Rubinoff, 2012 | |
Hyposmocoma tantala is a species of moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known only from Mount Tantalus on Oahu.
Larval case
The length of the forewings is 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in) for males and 6.2 millimetres (0.24 in) for females.[1]
The larval case is dark brown, smooth, 9 millimetres (0.35 in) in length and 2 millimetres (0.079 in) wide. Adults were reared from case-making larvae collected on bark of a damp dead tree covered partially with lichen.
Etymology
The species is named tantala after Mount Tantalus, from where the type specimen was collected.
References
- ↑ Akito Y. Kawahara and Daniel Rubinoff (2012). "Three new species of Fancy Case caterpillars from threatened forests of Hawaii (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Hyposmocoma)" 170. ZooKeys: 1–20. doi:10.3897/zookeys.170.1428. PMC 3288677. PMID 22408378.
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