Hyposmocoma tantala

Hyposmocoma tantala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Genus:	Hyposmocoma
Species:	H. tantala
Binomial name
	Hyposmocoma tantala; Kawahara & Rubinoff, 2012

Hyposmocoma tantala is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known only from Mount Tantalus on Oahu.

Larval case

The length of the forewings is 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in) for males and 6.2 millimetres (0.24 in) for females.[1]

The larval case is dark brown, smooth, 9 millimetres (0.35 in) in length and 2 millimetres (0.079 in) wide. Adults were reared from case-making larvae collected on bark of a damp dead tree covered partially with lichen.

Etymology

The species is named tantala after Mount Tantalus, from where the type specimen was collected.

References

Akito Y. Kawahara; Daniel Rubinoff (2012). "Three new species of Fancy Case caterpillars from threatened forests of Hawaii (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Hyposmocoma)". 170. ZooKeys: 1–20. doi:10.3897/zookeys.170.1428. PMC 3288677. PMID 22408378. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[1] Akito Y. Kawahara; Daniel Rubinoff (2012). "Three new species of Fancy Case caterpillars from threatened forests of Hawaii (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae, Hyposmocoma)". 170. ZooKeys: 1–20. doi:10.3897/zookeys.170.1428. PMC 3288677. PMID 22408378. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)