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Hyposmocoma pluviella

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Hyposmocoma pluviella is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae and is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Molokai. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907.

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Hyposmocoma pluviella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Hyposmocoma
Species:
H. pluviella
Binomial name
Hyposmocoma pluviella
(Walsingham, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Neelysia pluviella Walsingham, 1907
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  • Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1978). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 9 Microlepidoptera. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7338.


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