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Eupithecia monticolens

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Eupithecia monticolens
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Description

Eupithecia monticolens is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881.[1][2] It is endemic to the USA in the Hawaiian islands of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai and Hawaii.

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Ecology

The larvae feed on Alphitonia ponderosa, Metrosideros, Pipturus, Railliardia and Styphelia tameiameiae.

Etymology

The species name has sometimes been mis-written monticolans, but the suffix is correctly a Third-declension participle -colens for "inhabiting" as per the original spelling.

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