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Issue: Vol. 4276 No. 3: 13 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.3.8
Page range: 435–440
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 43

Two new endemic cave-living moths from Hawai‘i Island: a new species of
Pseudoschrankia (Erebidae), and a new species of Mestolobes Crambidae)

The Urban School of San Francisco, 1563 Page St, San Francisco, CA, 94117 USA, and Department of Integrative Biology, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA.
Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St, Honolulu, HI, 96817
Lepidoptera Crambinae Hawaii Hypenodinae morphology

Abstract

Two new endemic Hawaiian Lepidoptera species are herein described; both are associated with caves. The new species, Pseudoschrankia nohoana sp. nov. and Mestolobes olali sp. nov., have been found exclusively in caves or cave entrances on the Big Island of Hawai‘i, although neither species appears to possess any specializations for living in caves.

 

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