Philodoria floscula Walsingham, 1907

SUBFAMILY	Ornixolinae
GENUS	Philodoria
SPECIES	floscula
AUTHOR	Walsingham, 1907
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Philodoria floscula, sp. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY	Hawaii, Olaa, Hilo, 2000 ft.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Lectotype ♀, [not ♂ as stated in the original description], coll. Walsingham nr. 28597, BMNH; Paralectotype 1♂, coll. Walsingham, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Walsingham, Lord (Thomas de Grey) 1907c. Microlepidoptera. In: Sharp, D. (Ed.), Fauna Hawaiiensis or the Zoology of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Isles. - Fauna Hawaiiensis 1(5):469-759, pls. 10-25.
PAGINATION	718-719; pl. 25, fig. 21

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
United States, US	Hawaii (Hawaii)	Walsingham, Lord (Thomas de Grey) 1907c. Microlepidoptera. In: Sharp, D. (Ed.), Fauna Hawaiiensis or the Zoology of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Isles. - Fauna Hawaiiensis 1(5):469-759, pls. 10-25.	719
United States, US	Hawaii (Maui)	Zimmerman, E. C. 1978. Superfamily Gracillarioidea (Stainton). - — :644-719.	708

Notes: The record of Hawaii (Molokai) (Swezey, O. H. & Bryan, E. H. 1929: 301) refers to Philodoria haelaauensis Kobayashi, Johns & Kawahara, 2021 (see Kobayahi et al. 2021: 57).

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Urticaceae	Pipturus albidus	Hawaii	Kobayashi, S., Johns, C. A. & Kawahara, A. Y. 2021. Revision of the Hawaiian endemic leaf-mining moth genus Philodoria Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae): its conservation status, host plants and descriptions of thirteen new species. - Zootaxa 4944(1):1-175.	57
Urticaceae	Pipturus sp.	Hawaii	Swezey, O. H. 1923. The leaf-miners of Pipturus (Lepidoptera). - Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 5(2):293-296.	294