Philodoria kolea Kobayashi, Johns & Kawahara 2018

Philodoria kolea Kobayashi, Johns & Kawahara, 2018 Figs. 7F, 34B, C, 35, 41D, 42D, 43D, 56F, 79I���K. Philodoria kolea Kobayashi, Johns & Kawahara, 2018: 132���137, 3, 5K, L, 7A���D, I, 12, 13, 14D Type locality. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Big Island). Type material. Holotype ♂, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii (Big Island), 25.iv.2016, A. Kawakita leg., host: Myrsine lessertiana (understory shrub), Gen-Bank accession no. MF804825, IO-322, SK 851 in BPBM. The type series was mounted from emerged adult moths. Paratypes, in BPBM: 1♀, Kaumana Trail, Hilo, Hawaii (Big Island), 28.iv.2016, em., C.L. - Vaamonde & C. Doorenweerd leg., host: Myrsine sp., 20.iv.2016 (Cocoon), HILO016, SK 634♀. 1♀, Thurston lava tube (Nahuku), Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii Is., 13.v.2016, em., S. Kobayashi leg., host: Myrsine lessertiana, 25.iv.2016 (larva), SKH-05-1, SK 632♀; 1♀, same locality and data as holotype, IO-323, SK852; 2♀, same locality as holotype, 2& 24.v.2016, em., C.L. - Vaamonde & C. Doorenweerd leg., host: Myrsine lessertiana, 22.iv.2016 (larva), HILO020/SKH-15, SK 630♀, 631♀. Diagnosis. Among Philodoria species having similar fuscous forewing coloration (i.e., P. epibathra (Walsingham), P. nigrella (Walsingham) P. pipturiana Swezey, and P. wilkesiella Swezey (See Zimmerman 1978a)), P. kolea is distinguished by the white and bronze color bands on the forewing (Fig. 7F). The forewing pattern and genitalia are similar to those of other Myrsine mining species, P. auromagnifica and P. succedanea, but P. kolea completely lacks the orange markings (Fig. 7F). Adult (Fig. 7F, 34B, C, 35). Wingspan 6.7 mm in holotype, 6.6, 8.5 mm in paratypes. Male genitalia (Figs. 41D, 42D, 43D) and Female genitalia (Fig. 56F). See also Kobayashi et al. (2018). Distribution. Hawaii (Big Island) (Kobayashi et al. 2018). Host plants. Primulaceae: Myrsine lessertiana A. DC. (Kobayashi et al. 2018). Biology. (Figs. 79I���K). Kobayashi et al. (2018: 136���137, figs. 12, 13, 14D) reported the leaf mine and pupal cocoon.
Published as part of Kobayashi, Shigeki, Johns, Chris A. & Kawahara, Akito 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, pp. 1-175 in Zootaxa 4944 (1) on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4944.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4681813
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