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Meyrick's banana hedyleptan moth

species of moth

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ25004064 ↗
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Meyrick's banana hedyleptan moth (Omiodes meyrickii) is a species of moth in the family Pyralidae. It was described by Otto Herman Swezey in 1907 and is endemic to the island of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi.

Sources

Haines, W.P. (2004). "Omiodes meyricki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004 e.T44548A10918270. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T44548A10918270.en. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii.

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This entry incorporates text from “Meyrick's banana hedyleptan moth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.