Cydia crassicornis

Cydia crassicornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Cydia
Species:
C. crassicornis
Binomial name
Cydia crassicornis
(Walsingham, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Enarmonia crassicornis Walsingham, 1907

Cydia crassicornis is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the island of Hawaii.

Cydia crassicornis is similar to Cydia walsinghamii and might even be conspecific. It is known from two males collected in 1892 at 1,200 m (4,000 ft) altitude near Kona. It is presumed extinct. The larvae possibly used Acacia koa as the host.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gilligan, T. M.; Baixeras, J. & Brown, J. W. (2018). "Cydia crassicornis (Walsingham, 1907)". World Catalogue of the Tortricidae (Ver. 4.0). Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Austin, Kyhl A. & Rubinoff, Daniel (2023). "Rediscoveries and presumed extinctions of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)". Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. 55: 11–27. hdl:10125/104856.
  3. 1 2 Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1978). Insects of Hawaii. Volume 9, Microlepidoptera. Hawaii, Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii. p. 585. hdl:10125/7338.
  4. ↑ Oboyski, Peter T. (2011). The Systematics, Evolution, and Ecology of Hawaiian Cydia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) (PhD thesis). UC Berkeley.