Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962

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Higher taxa:	Cosmopterigidae (family)/  Chrysopeleiinae (subfamily)/  Ithome (genus)/
Status:	Accepted
Authorship:	Hodges, 1962
Citation:	Ithome lassula Hodges, new species
Original genus:	Ithome
Publication:	Hodges R. W. 1962b. The genus Ithome in North America North of Mexico (Walshiidae).
Journal:	Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
Volume:	15 (1961)
Issue:	2
Pagination:	89, figs 3, 10
URL:	https://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/1960s/1961/1961-15(2)81-Hodges.pdf

Ithome lassula (1)

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Scientific name	TypeStatus	Gender	Museum	Description	Country	Locality	Publication	URL
Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962	Holotype	♂	USNM	Holotype ♂, genitalia slide R. W. Hodges 10021♂, USNM	United States of America	U.S.A., Florida, Key West, ex flowers of Leucaena glauca, e.l. 19.iv.1945.
Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962	Paratype	♂	USNM	Paratypes 6♂, 10♀, USNM.	United States of America	U.S.A., Florida, Key West, ex flowers of Leucaena glauca, e.l. 19.iv.1945.

Distribution note:

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

Scientific name	Country	Province	Publication	URL
Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962	Mauritius		Bippus M. 2020a. Review of the Genus Orygocera Walsingham, 1897 from the Mascarenes with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae, Stenomatinae). page 406
Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962	Réunion		Bippus M. 2020a. Review of the Genus Orygocera Walsingham, 1897 from the Mascarenes with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae, Stenomatinae). page 406

Plant note:

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

Bippus M. 2021. Eine neue Chrysopeleiinae-Art von den Maskarenischen Inseln (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae).

Scientific name	Plant	Plant Family	Country	Publication	URL
Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962	Leucaena leucocephala	Fabaceae		Hodges R. W. 1962b. The genus Ithome in North America North of Mexico (Walshiidae). page 89
Ithome lassula Hodges, 1962	Leucaena leucocephala	Fabaceae	Réunion	Bippus M. 2021. Eine neue Chrysopeleiinae-Art von den Maskarenischen Inseln (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae). page 163

Scientific name	Parasitoid	Parasitoid Family	Country	Publication	URL

Ithome lassula (1)

Ithome lassula (2)

Ithome lassula (3)

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