Philodoria obamaorum Kobayashi, Johns & Kawahara, 2021
| SUBFAMILY | Ornixolinae |
| GENUS | Philodoria |
| SPECIES | obamaorum |
| AUTHOR | Kobayashi, Johns & Kawahara, 2021 |
| ORIGINAL COMBINATION | Philodoria obamaorum Kobayashi, Johns & Kawahara, sp. n. |
| TYPE LOCALITY | United States, US, Hawaii, Pahoa, Puna, 20.ix.1918, leg. O. H. Swezey. |
| GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES | / |
| TYPE SPECIMEN(S) | Holotype ♂, USNM; Paratypes 4♂, 3♀, 7 sex unknown, USNM, BPBM. |
| STATUS | Species |
| COMMENT | Had been misidentified as Gracilaria neraudicola Swezey, 1920 (see Kobayashi et al. 2021: 86). |
| PUBLICATION | 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. |
| PAGINATION | 86-87, figs 19C-E, 27K-M, 50C, D, 51B, 52B, 59C, D, 63C-G |
Species Distribution
| COUNTRY | PROVINCE/STATE | PUBLICATION | PAGE |
| United States, US | Hawaii (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. | 86 |
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. | 86 |
| Urticaceae | Pipturus sp. | 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. | 86 |
