Cryptophlebia semilunana

Cryptophlebia semilunana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Cryptophlebia
Species:
C. semilunana
Binomial name
Cryptophlebia semilunana
Synonyms
  • Carpocapsa semilunana Saalmüller, 1880
  • Argyroploce praesiliens Meyrick, 1924
  • Argyroploce xylodelta Meyrick, 1928

Cryptophlebia semilunana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Africa, where it is known from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Madagascar, Réunion and Mauritius.[2]

Host plants of the larvae of this species are Fabaceae (Sesbania sp.)[3]

References

  1. ^ Saalmüller 1880. Neue Lepidopteren aus Madagascar, die sich in Museum der Senckenberg'schen naturforschenden Gesellschaft befinden. - Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a.M. 1879–1880:258–310
  2. ^ afromoths
  3. ^ Bradley, 1953a. Some important species of the genus Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1899, with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae). - Bulletin of Entomological Research 43(4):679–689, pls. 24–25.
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