Thyrocopa gigas

Thyrocopa gigas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Thyrocopa
Species:	T. gigas
Binomial name
Thyrocopa gigas (Butler, 1881)
Synonyms
Depressaria gigas Butler, 1881

Thyrocopa geminipuncta is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Oahu, Molokai and Maui. However, but it is possibly extinct on Oahu, where two females were collected in 1892 but no further specimens have been collected since then.

The length of the forewings is 17-23 mm. Adults are on wing at least from April to September.

External links

• Insects of Hawaii. Volume 9, Microlepidoptera
• A revision of the endemic Hawaiian genus Thyrocopa (Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae: Xyloryctinae)

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