Critically Endangered
Telegraphic Hedyleptan Moth
Omiodes telegrapha
Telegraphic Hedyleptan Moth is a moth or butterfly in the family Crambidae (order Lepidoptera) — Omiodes telegrapha, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The moth or butterfly
Moths and butterflies have scaled wings and a four-stage life: egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult. Most named species are known from a handful of specimens and a type locality.
An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the island of Hawaii.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The larvae probably feed on grasses.
In crisis
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Telegraphic Hedyleptan Moth is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Omiodes telegrapha — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q5503982. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
