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Issue: Vol. 1830 No. 1: 28 Jul. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-07-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1830.1.5
Page range: 57–62
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 28

A new species of flightless, jumping, alpine moth of the genus Thyrocopa from Hawaii (Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae: Xyloryctinae)

Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, U.S.A
Lepidoptera Gelechioidea brachyptery flightlessness

Abstract

A new species of brachypterous, flightless, jumping alpine Thyrocopa moth, T. kikaelekea, is described from Hawaii Island. This new species is similar to T. apatela (Walsingham), another flightless species from Maui Island. Thyrocopa kikaelekea is hypothesized not to be the sister taxon to T. apatela, instead representing an independent loss of flight.

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