Mestolobes abnormis

Mestolobes abnormis is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1882. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Mestolobes abnormis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Mestolobes
Species:
M. abnormis
Binomial name
Mestolobes abnormis
(Butler, 1882)
Synonyms
  • Metasia abnormis Butler, 1882

Adults have been taken at the flowers of Metrosideros species.

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


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