Pararrhaptica capucina (Walsingham)
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8159762 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8204366 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/954587E7-B729-D011-FDB3-641FFC69FA88 |
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Pararrhaptica capucina (Walsingham) |
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Pararrhaptica capucina (Walsingham) View in CoL
Presumed extinct
This species was described from two females: the holotype collected in 1893 at 4000 ft on Molokaʻi and a questionably associated paratype collected in 1892 at 3000 ft near Kona, Hawaiʻi island ( Walsingham 1907). The two specimens are likely not conspecific, as most Pararrhaptica appear to be single island endemics. Several other high islands host similar-looking Pararrhaptica , including P. chlorippa (Meyrick) on Oʻahu (see below).However,in recent years on Molokaʻi we have collected a species very similar to the type of P. capucina in genitalia but externally more closely resembling P. longiplicatus (Walsingham) , described from Maui, suggesting that perhaps only one species is involved and that the holotype of P. capucina is just an unusual color form of a more widespread Maui Nui species.
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