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Notes: By eliminating its food plant, Darwiniothamnus tenuifolius, the cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi (Insecta, Homoptera, Margarodidae), may have extirpated three Lepidoptera species (i.e. Semiothisa cerussata, Platyptilia vilema and Tebenna galapagoensis) from the east slope of Volcán Alcedo, Isabela Island, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador.