Cryptophlebia semilunana
| Cryptophlebia semilunana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Subfamily: | Olethreutinae |
| Genus: | Cryptophlebia |
| Species: | C. semilunana |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryptophlebia semilunana (Saalmüller, 1880)[1] | |
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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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ afromoths
- ↑ 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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