Philodoria auromagnifica Walsingham 1907

Philodoria auromagnifica Walsingham, 1907 Figs. 7E, 26B, 41B, C, 42B, C, 43B, C, 56C, 61A–G, 79H. Philodoria auromagnifica Walsingham, 1907: 718, pl. 25, fig. 20; Swezey 1913b: 223; Zimmerman 1978a: 695, figs. 461, 468, 474; Kobayashi et al. (2018): 130 –132, figs. 2E, F, 5E–H, 6E–H, 7G, 8B, 11, 14C. Type locality. mountains, 2000 ft near Honolulu (Oahu). Type material. Holotype ♂, Mts. 2000 ft near Honolulu, Oahu, 25.x.1892, Perkins. 25857|BM slide no. 472|Walsingham Collection. 1910–427.| NHMUK010305330 | in NHMUK. Diagnosis. Very similar to P. succedanea, but distinguished from it by the dark brownish orange patches and brownish orange basal patch in the forewing; a fuscous patch with dark orangish scales in the apical portion (Fig. 7E); in the male genitalia by the rather long valva narrowing in the middle, vinculum large, inflexed on the ventral side, broad and straight saccus (Figs. 41B, C, 42B, C); in the female genitalia by signa with rather blunt spines (Fig. 55C) (Kobayashi et al. 2018). See also diagnosis of P. succedanea. Adult (Fig. 7E). Wingspan 8 mm in holotype. Male genitalia (Figs. 41B, C, 42B, C, 43B, C, 61A–C) and Female genitalia figured (Figs. 56C, 61G). See also Kobayashi et al. (2018). Distribution. Kauai (Kobayashi et al. 2018), Oahu (Walsingham 1907), Molokai (Swezey & Bryan 1929), and Hawaii (Big Island) (Zimmerman 1978a). Host plants. Primulaceae: Myrsine lessertiana A. DC. and M. sandwicensis A. DC. (Johns et al. 2016), M. wawraea (Mez) Hosaka (Kobayashi et al. 2018), Myrsine sp. (Swezey 1913a). Biology. (Fig. 79H). Kobayashi et al. (2018: 131, figs. 8B, 11, 14C) reported the leaf mine and pupal cocoon. Parasitoids. Eulophidae: Euderus metallicus (Ashmead, 1901) (Zimmerman 1978a).
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 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4944.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4681813
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