Cydia crassicornis (Walsingham)
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8159762 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8160016 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/954587E7-B72E-D016-FDB3-66F8FCFDFD28 |
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Cydia crassicornis (Walsingham) |
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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.
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