Mestolobes arctura

Mestolobes arctura is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

Mestolobes arctura
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M. arctura
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Mestolobes arctura
Meyrick, 1899

Females have a remarkable, large, broad, apically truncated, heavy mass of black hair-scales, which resemble a shaving brush, at the apex of the abdomen.

  • Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii. 8 Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea. University of Hawaii Press. hdl:10125/7337.


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