''Udea phyllostegia'' is a

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 ...

of the family Crambidae. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of

Oahu Oahu () (Hawaiian language, Hawaiian: ''Oʻahu'' ()), also known as "The Gathering place#Island of Oʻahu as The Gathering Place, Gathering Place", is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is home to roughly one million people—over t ...

. The larvae feed on ''

Phyllostegia ''Phyllostegia'' is a genus of flowering plant in the Mentha, mint family, Lamiaceae, first described in 1840. It is native to certain islands in the Pacific Islands, Pacific (Hawaii, Tonga and the Society Islands, although it appears to be extin ...

'' species.

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* Moths described in 1946 Endemic moths of Hawaii

phyllostegia ''Phyllostegia'' is a genus of flowering plant in the Mentha, mint family, Lamiaceae, first described in 1840. It is native to certain islands in the Pacific Islands, Pacific (Hawaii, Tonga and the Society Islands, although it appears to be extin ...

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