A revision of the endemic Hawaiian genus Thyrocopa (Lepidoptera: Xyloryctidae: Xyloryctinae) Author Medeiros, Matthew J. text Zootaxa 2009 2202 1 47 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.275119 ed4c6a69-93b2-4177-888f-cdc9f9a8a327 1175-5326 275119 9. Thyrocopa decipiens (Walsingham) ( Figs. 21 , 60, 74 ) Catamempsis decipiens Walsingham, 1907b : 491 , plate 14, fig. 6. Type species of Catamempsis . Lectotype : UNITED STATES : HAWAII: Hawaii Island : Olaa, 2000’ [ 610 m ]: 1 3 (slide 4389 BMNH, wings), Nov 1896 , Perkins (BMNH), designated by Zimmerman, 1978 : figs. 648, 656 (as “ holotype ”). Paralectotypes : UNITED STATES : HAWAII: Oahu : Near head of Kawailoa Gulch: 1 Ƥ (slide 2044 BMNH), Apr 1893 , Perkins. Hawaii Island : Olaa: 1 Ƥ (slide 3944 BMNH), Sep 1896 , Perkins (BMNH). Thyrocopa decipiens (Walsingham) ; Zimmerman, 1978 : 986 , figs. 648, 656, 682, 685. Diagnosis : The male antennae in Thyrocopa decipiens are conspicuously serrate. Description : Head : Scales dark brown to brown. Antenna ( Fig. 60 ) ca. 0.6–0.7x forewing length; male flagellomere serrate; female with dense, short, piliform cilia on ventral side of flagellomere, cilia less dense on dorsal side. Labial palpus mottled brown and light brown; third segment ca. 0.5x length of second. Thorax : Light brown to dark brown. Forewing length 16–23 mm ; forewing ground color light brown mottled with a small amount of darker brown but area near costal margin of wing with streak of brown, usually large and distinctive, sometimes weak; evenly spaced spots on distal half of costa and along termen at vein endings sometimes present. Hindwing light brown to very light brown, fringe very light brown. Abdomen : Brown to very light brown. Male genitalia ( Fig. 74 ) with uncus deeply apically cleft; sacculus short, tapering to sharp apex. Female genitalia unknown. Food plants : Freycinetia arborea (Hawaiian = ieie) ( Swezey 1936a ). Flight period : Year-round. Distribution : Oahu (possibly extinct), Molokai, Maui, Hawaii Island. Remarks : Swezey (1936a: 191) wrote, “The caterpillars of this gelechiid moth feed in the tips of branches, eating the leaves of the unexpanded spindle. There may be a dozen or more feeding somewhat gregariously...” Additional material examined : UNITED STATES : HAWAII: 1 Ƥ, 1910, P. ( BMNH ); Oahu : Pacific Heights: 1 3 (slide 56), 11 Nov 1918 , O.H. Swezey ( BPBM ). Molokai : Pepepae Bog Trail, “Kamakou 4:” 1 3 (slide LA25), 6 Jul 2005 , D. Rubinoff ( UHIM ). Maui : Kipahulu Valley (E. Maui), below Palikea: 1 3, 4–6 Jul 1980, S.L. Montgomery ( BPBM ); W. Maui, Honakohau, 900 m : 6 3, 19 Mar 1972, J.L. Gressitt ( BPBM ); W. Maui, Puu Kukui, 850 m : 2 3, 30 Mar 1972, J.L. Gressitt ( BPBM ). Hawaii Island : 1300’ [ 396 m ], S. Hilo District, Upper Waiakea FR, Stainback Highway: 1 3 , 1 Aug 1976 , K. & E. Sattler; 3000’ [ 914 m ], S. Hilo District, Upper Waiakea FR, Stainback Highway: 1 3, 9 Jul 1976, K. & E. Sattler; Stainback Hwy ca. 2600’ [ 792 m ] (on dead leaf of Pritchardia beccariana ): 1 3, Mar 1999 , collector unknown ( BPBM ).