Kyhl Alexander Austin

Kyhl Alexander Austin (born March 16, 1996), U.S. entomologist.

Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Gilmore Hall, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 96822.

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Austin, K.A., Dombroskie, J.J., Matthews, D.L. & Miller, J.Y. 2019. A Review of the Archipini of the Bahamas with the Description of a New Species of Argyrotaenia Stephens (Tortricidae). The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 73(1): 5-17. DOI: 10.18473/lepi.73i1.a2. . Reference page.

Austin, K.A. & Dombroskie, J.J. 2020a. New Combinations in Neotropical Archipini and Atteriini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae), with the Description of a New Genus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 122(1): 1–11. DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.122.1.1. . Reference page.
Eiseman, C.E., Austin, K.A., Blyth, J.A. & Feldman, T.S. 2020. New records of leaf-mining Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) in North America, with the description of a new species of Grapholita. Zootaxa 4748(3): 514–530. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.3.6. . Reference page.
Austin, K.A. & Dombroskie, J.J. 2020. A taxonomic revision of the Archipini of the Caribbean (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae, Tortricinae). ZooKeys 982: 33–147. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.982.52363. . Reference page.

Doorenweerd, C., Austin, K.A. & Rubinoff, D. 2021. First Confirmed Record of Leaf Mining in the Fruitworm Moths (Carposinidae): A New Species Feeding on an Endemic Hawaiian Clermontia (Campanulaceae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 53: 11–19. DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/75856. . Reference page.

Austin, K.A. & Rubinoff, D. 2023c. Seven new species of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths (Tortricidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 77(2): 73–89. DOI: 10.18473/lepi.77i2.a1. . Reference page.
Doorenweerd, C., Austin, K.A. & Rubinoff, D. 2023. Five new species of Hawaiian endemic fancy case caterpillars from a recently established forest reserve on Maui (Cosmopterigidae: Hyposmocoma). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 55: 29–44. DOI: https://hdl.handle.net/10125/104862. . Reference page.

Austin, K.A. & Rubinoff, D. 2024b. Nine new species of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), including one probably extinct species. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 56: 29–59. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14661935. . Reference page.

Austin, K.A. & Rubinoff, D. 2025a. Phylogenetics Confirms a Unique Instance of Endemicity in a Polyphagous Hawaiian Moth Pest and Uncovers a Remarkable New Species. Pacific Science 78(2): 119-137. DOI: 10.2984/78.2.1. . Reference page.
Austin, K.A. & Rubinoff, D. 2025b. Two colonizations and the misidentification of a global pest: a review of Crocidosema (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Hawaiʻi. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 118(4): 290–302. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/saaf015. . Reference page.

Austin, K.A. & Rubinoff, D. 2026. The giant, the flightless, and the iridescent: seven new endemic genera of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Zootaxa 5757: 201–250. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5757.3.1. . Reference page.