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Hyposmocoma tantala
Hyposmocoma tantala is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known only from Mount Tantalus on Oahu.
The length of the forewings is 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in) for males and 6.2 millimetres (0.24 in) for females.
From the article Hyposmocoma tantala on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The species is named tantala after Mount Tantalus, from where the type specimen was collected.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1182287.