''Mecomodica fullawayi'' is a
fungus moth
Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The family contains considerably more than 3,000 species in more than 300 genera. ...
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family
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Tineidae) of the
subfamily
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Erechthiinae
The Erechthiinae are a subfamily of moth of the family Tineidae.
Genera
* ''Anastathma''
* ''Callicerastis'' (sometimes in ''Erechthias'')
* ''Comodica''
* ''Erechthias'' Meyrick, 1880
* ''Mecomodica
''Mecomodica fullawayi'' is a fungus moth ...
. It was first described by Otto Swezey in 1926.
It is provisionally separated in the
monotypic
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genus
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''Mecomodica'', described by
Elwood Zimmerman in 1978, but it may belong in the related larger genera ''
Comodica
''Comodica'' is a small genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Erechthiinae. It is apparently a close relative of the type genus of its subfamily, ''Erechthias''.Robinson 011/ref>
It is usually delimited ...
'' or ''
Erechthias
''Erechthias'' is a genus of the fungus moth family, Tineidae. Therein, it belongs to the subfamily Erechthiinae, of which it is the type genus. The exact circumscription of this genus is still disputed, but it may encompass more than 150 species ...
''.
It is only known from
Kure Island
Kure Atoll (; haw, Hōlanikū, translation=bringing forth heaven; haw, Mokupāpapa, translation=flat island, label=none) or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean west-northwest of Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands a ...
in the Pacific Ocean. Adults are small and mostly yellow.
External links
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Global Taxonomic Database of Tineidae* (2010): Australian Faunal Directory &ndash
''Erechthias'' Version of November 15, 2010. Retrieved December 23, 2011.
Tineidae
Endemic moths of Hawaii
Moths described in 1926
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