''Udea constricta'' is a
moth of the family
Crambidae. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands of
Kauai
Kauai, () anglicized as Kauai ( ), is geologically the second-oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands (after Niʻihau). With an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km2), it is the fourth-largest of these islands and the 21st largest island ...
,
Oahu and
Molokai
Molokai , or Molokai (), is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is 38 by 10 miles (61 by 16 km) at its greatest length an ...
.
The larvae feed on ''
Scaevola'' species, including ''
Scaevola chamisoniana'', ''
Scaevola gaudichaudii
''Scaevola gaudichaudii'', the ridgetop naupaka, is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae. The flowers are yellow.
The plant is endemic to Hawaii.
It was first described by William J. Hooker and George Arnott Walker-Arnott in 1832 in the ''Bota ...
'' and ''
Scaevola tnollis''.
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Moths described in 1882
Endemic moths of Hawaii
constricta
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