Cydia crassicornis (Walsingham)

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 : 14

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8160016

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cydia crassicornis (Walsingham)
status

 

Cydia crassicornis (Walsingham) View in CoL

Presumed extinct

This species is known only from two males collected by R.C.L. Perkins in 1892 at 4000 ft near Kona, Hawaiʻi island ( Walsingham 1907). Although possibly a color form of the koa-feeding C. walsinghamii (Butler) , Oboyski (2011) considered it distinct based on subtle differences in the male genitalia. Perkins’ field notes for September 1892 indicates that he “collected … by sifting dead leaves at the foot of a big koa tree” ( Evenhuis 2007). The forewings are very similar to C. conspicua (Walsingham) , but the absence of a “sex pouch” ( Zimmerman 1978) on the ventral surface of the male hindwing readily separates it from that species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Tortricidae

Genus

Cydia

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