| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Authors: | M. J. Medeiros |
| Journal: | ZootaxaZootaxa |
| Volume: | 1830 |
| Pagination: | 57-62 |
| Keywords: | description, flightlessness, Gelechioidea, HAWAII, LEPIDOPTERA, Oecophoridae, Pacific Insects, Thyrocopa, Xyloryctidae |
| Abstract: | A new species of brachypterous, flightless, jumping alpine Thyrocopa moth, T. kikaelekea, is described from Hawaii Island. This new species is similar to T. apatela (Walsingham), another flightless species from Maui Island. Thyrocopa kikaelekea is hypothesized not to be the sister taxon to T. apatela, instead representing an independent loss of flight. |