Spheterista, Meyrick, 1912

Austin, Kyhl A. & Rubinoff, Daniel, 2023, Rediscoveries and Presumed Extinctions of Hawaiian Leaf-roller Moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 55, pp. 11-27 : 17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8159762

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8204376

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scientific name

Spheterista
status

 

Spheterista View in CoL flavocincta

(Walsingham)

Presumed extinct

This species was described from a single female collected by Perkins in 1892 near Kona, Hawaiʻi island at an elevation of 4000 ft. Walsingham (1907) described the male of this species as

Capua trigonifer , later synonymized by Zimmerman (1978). Records of this species on islands other than Hawaiʻi island are likely erroneous. Capua santalata Swezey , described from Oʻahu and currently considered a junior synonym of “ S.” flavocincta, is still extant and probably deserves its species status restored. True “ S.” flavocincta appears to be endemic to Hawaiʻi island and has not been collected since 1911. It probably fed on Santalum spp. (Santalaceae) like its close relatives.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae

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