Philodoria hibiscella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gracillariidae
- Genus
- Philodoria
- Species
- Philodoria hibiscella
- Scientific Name
- Philodoria hibiscella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Philodoria hibiscella
Philodoria hibiscella, the hibiscus leaf miner, is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It was first described by Otto Swezey in 1913. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
The larvae feed on Hibiscus arnottianus and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
...Philodoria hibiscella in languages:
- English
- hibiscus leafminer
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Philodoria alakaiensis
- Philodoria auromagnifica
- Philodoria basalis
- Philodoria costalis
- Philodoria dubauticola
- Philodoria dubautiella
- Philodoria epibathra
- Philodoria floscula
- Philodoria funkae
- Philodoria haelaauensis
- Philodoria hauicola
- Philodoria hesperomanniella
- Philodoria hibiscella
- Philodoria kauaulaensis
- Philodoria keaensis
- Philodoria keahii
- Philodoria knudseniiella
- Philodoria kolea
- Philodoria lama
- Philodoria limahuliensis
- Philodoria lipochaetaella
- Philodoria lysimachiella
- Philodoria marginestrigata
- Philodoria micropetala
- Philodoria molokaiensis
- Philodoria naenaeiella
- Philodoria napaliensis
- Philodoria neraudicola
- Philodoria nigrella
- Philodoria nigrelloides
- Philodoria obamaorum
- Philodoria opuhe
- Philodoria pipturiana
- Philodoria pipturicola
- Philodoria pipturiella
- Philodoria pittosporella
- Philodoria platyphylliella
- Philodoria sciallactis
- Philodoria spilota
- Philodoria splendida
- Philodoria succedanea
- Philodoria touchardiella
- Philodoria ureraella
- Philodoria urerana
- Philodoria wilkesiella