''Mestolobes'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s of the family
Crambidae described by
Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1882. All species are endemic to the
Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kur ...
.
Species
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Mestolobes abnormis''
(Butler, 1882)
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Mestolobes amethystias''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes antichora''
Meyrick, 1904
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Mestolobes aphrias
''Mestolobes aphrias'' is a species of moth in the family Crambidae described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauai
Kauai, () anglicized as Kauai ( ), is geologically the second-oldest of the main Hawaiian ...
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Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes arctura''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes autodoxa''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes banausa''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes chimonias''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes chlorolychna''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes chrysomolybda''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes chrysomolybdoides''
Swezey, 1920
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Mestolobes droseropa''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes epidelta''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes erinnys''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes eurylyca''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes homalopa''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes iochrysa''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes mesacma''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes minuscula''
(Butler, 1881)
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Mestolobes ochrias''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes ombrias''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes orthrias''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes perixantha''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes pessias''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes pragmatica''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes pyropa''
(Meyrick, 1899)
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Mestolobes quadrifascia''
(Swezey, 1934)
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Mestolobes quadrifasciata''
Swezey, 1920
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Mestolobes scleropis''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes semiochrea''
Butler, 1882
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Mestolobes sicaria''
Meyrick, 1904
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Mestolobes sirina''
Meyrick, 1899
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Mestolobes xanthoscia''
Meyrick, 1899
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Crambinae
Endemic moths of Hawaii
Crambidae genera
Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
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