Pararrhaptica capucina (Walsingham)

Presumed extinct

This species was described from two females: the holotype collected in 1893 at 4000 ft on Molokaʻi and a questionably associated paratype collected in 1892 at 3000 ft near Kona, Hawaiʻi island (Walsingham 1907). The two specimens are likely not conspecific, as most Pararrhaptica appear to be single island endemics. Several other high islands host similar-looking Pararrhaptica, including P. chlorippa (Meyrick) on Oʻahu (see below).However,in recent years on Molokaʻi we have collected a species very similar to the type of P. capucina in genitalia but externally more closely resembling P. longiplicatus (Walsingham), described from Maui, suggesting that perhaps only one species is involved and that the holotype of P. capucina is just an unusual color form of a more widespread Maui Nui species.