Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962

FAMILY	Cosmopterigidae
SUBFAMILY	Chrysopeleiinae
GENUS	Ithome
SPECIES	lassula
AUTHOR	Hodges, 1962
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Ithome lassula Hodges, new species
TYPE LOCALITY	U.S.A., Florida, Key West, ex flowers of Leucaena glauca, e.l. 19.iv.1945.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	/
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, genitalia slide R. W. Hodges 10021♂, USNM; Paratypes 6♂, 10♀, USNM.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Hodges R. W. 1962b. The genus Ithome in North America North of Mexico (Walshiidae). - Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 15 (1961)(2):81-90.
PAGINATION	89, figs 3, 10

Species pictures

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Mauritius		Bippus M. 2020a. Review of the Genus Orygocera Walsingham, 1897 from the Mascarenes with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae, Stenomatinae). - Shilap, Revista de lepidopterología 48(191):403-409.	406
Réunion		Bippus M. 2020a. Review of the Genus Orygocera Walsingham, 1897 from the Mascarenes with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae, Stenomatinae). - Shilap, Revista de lepidopterología 48(191):403-409.	406

Notes: Australasia: Australia; Nearctic: U.S.A. (Florida); Neotropical: Cuba.

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Fabaceae	Leucaena leucocephala		Hodges R. W. 1962b. The genus Ithome in North America North of Mexico (Walshiidae). - Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 15 (1961)(2):81-90.	89
Fabaceae	Leucaena leucocephala	Réunion	Bippus M. 2021. Eine neue Chrysopeleiinae-Art von den Maskarenischen Inseln (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae). - Atalanta, Würzburg 52(1-2):162-164.	163

* In young seeds (see M. Bippus 2021: 163).