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Udea calliastra

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7877088 ↗
Source-derived summary

Udea calliastra is a moth of the family Crambidae. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands of Maui, Kauai, Molokai, Oahu and Hawaii.

The larvae of subspecies U. c. synastra feed on Peperomia latifolia and Peperomia membranacea.

Subspecies

Udea calliastra calliastra (Kauai)

Udea calliastra hyadnthias Meyrick, 1899 (Molokai, Maui)

Udea calliastra synastra Meyrick, 1899 (Oahu, Molokai, Hawaii)

External links

Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 8 Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea. University of Hawaii Press. hdl:10125/7337.

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The public source identifies “Udea calliastra” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Udea, calliastra and species.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7877088. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1899 and 1958.

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This entry incorporates text from “Udea calliastra” 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.