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.8204374

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/954587E7-B72B-D013-FF73-6524FDB2FA88

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Felipe

scientific name

Spheterista
status

 

Spheterista View in CoL ” cassia (Swezey)

Presumed extinct

This species may have been introduced. It does not belong in Spheterista and more closely resembles some Australian tortricids, such as Merophyas Common , than any native Hawaiian species. It has been reared from leaves of Senna gaudachaudii (Fabaceae) , an indigenous species that also occurs in Australia and other islands in the Pacific. There are large series of this species in HDOA and BPBM, suggesting it was once common on several islands. It has not been collected since 1920; we have not encountered its host plant in the wild.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae

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