| Thyrocopa apatela | |
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| At Haleakala National Park Maui, Hawaii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Thyrocopa |
| Species: | T. apatela |
| Binomial name | |
| Thyrocopa apatela (Walsingham, 1907) | |
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Thyrocopa apatela, the grasshopper moth or Haleakala flightless moth, is a species of brachypterous (flightless) moth from the Hawaiian island of Maui.
References
- University of California, Berkeley
- Thyrocopa apatela, Haleakala flightless moth, (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae)
- A new species of flightless, jumping, alpine moth of the genus Thyrocopa from Hawaii
External links
- Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1978). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 9 Microlepidoptera. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7338.
- Medeiros, Matthew J. (2009). "A revision of the endemic Hawaiian genus Thyrocopa (Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae: Xyloryctinae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2202: 1–47. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2202.1.1.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Hodegia apatela | |
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