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Hyposmocoma psaroderma

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Hyposmocoma psaroderma is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The type locality is the Waianae Range, where the moth was collected at an elevation of 3,000 feet (910 m).

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Hyposmocoma psaroderma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Hyposmocoma
Species:
H. psaroderma
Binomial name
Hyposmocoma psaroderma
(Walsingham, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Neelysia psaroderma 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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