Mestolobes semiochrea
Appearance
Mestolobes semiochrea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Crambidae |
Genus: | Mestolobes |
Species: | M. semiochrea
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Binomial name | |
Mestolobes semiochrea Butler, 1882
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Mestolobes semiochrea is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1882. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
Adults have been taken while feeding on the blossoms of Metrosideros species.
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- Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 8 Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea. University of Hawaii Press. hdl:10125/7337.