Hyposmocoma kikokolu

Hyposmocoma kikokolu
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Genus:	Hyposmocoma
Species:	H. kikokolu
Binomial name
	Hyposmocoma kikokolu; Schmitz and Rubinoff, 2009

Hyposmocoma kikokolu is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is endemic to Nihoa. The type locality is Miller Canyon.

The wingspan is 8–10 millimetres (mm).

All adults were reared from case-making larvae. Larvae were collected on the ground. The larval case is cone-shaped and 6.0–8.7 mm in length. It is small and thin and decorated with beige, brown, and black sand grains. The operculum of the case is covered with small pebbles. The background color ranges from gray to grayish brown.

External links[]

New species of Hyposmocoma (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae) from the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands of Laysan, Necker, and Nihoa

This Hyposmocoma moth related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .