Chedra mimica
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| Chedra mimica | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Batrachedridae |
| Genus: | Chedra |
| Species: | C. mimica |
| Binomial name | |
| Chedra mimica Zimmerman, 1978 | |
Chedra mimica is a tiny moth of the family Batrachedridae known from Hawaii.
It was first collected by Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in the Waianae Mountains of Oahu together with Chedra microstigma in the beginning of the 20th century. These Lord Walsingham used, both species mixed together, to construct a type series which he used to describe the new Batrachedra microstigma in 1907.[1]
In 1978 Elwood Zimmerman noticed this type series contained two species. He re-described Batrachedra microstigma and placed it the genus Chedra, and described C. mimica based on some of Lord Walsingham's specimens as well as new specimens from Kona District, Hawaii.[1] The holotype was collected in Kona above 2,000 feet (610 m) in altitude.[2]
Zimmerman moved the entire Chedra genus, including this species, to the Momphinae subfamily of the family Gelechiidae in 1978.[1] Ron Hodges classified Chedra in the subfamily Batrachedrinae of the family Coleophoridae in his 1983 Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico,[3][2] but in 1999 he placed in the subfamily Batrachedrinae of the family Batrachedridae.[3][4]