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Adoxophyes moderatana

Description

15. Adoxophyes moderatana (Walker, 1863)

Tortrix moderatana Walker, 1863; List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 28: 328.

= Adoxophyes prosiliens Meyrick, 1928; Exotic Microlepid. 3: 454

TL: Borneo, Sarawak (moderatana); India, Andamans, Port Blair (prosiliens).

Distribution: India (Andaman Islands); Borneo; Malaysia; Sulawesi; Thailand; Vietnam (Robinson et al. 1994; Nedoshivina 2013).

Hosts: Larvae feed on a wide variety of hosts including Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), Ochroma pyramidale (Bombaceae), Glycine max (Fabaceae), Ficus spp. (Moraceae), Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae), Pinus caribaea (Pinaceae), Camellia sinensis (Theaceae), and many others (Yunus & Ho 1980; Robinson et al. 1994; Novotny et al. 2005).

Illustrations: Adult (Robinson et al. 1994: 273; Nodoshivina 2013: 220) and genitalia (Clarke 1958: 23).

Notes

Published as part of Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2020, Catalogue of Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) of India, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 4757 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4757.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3756053

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Walker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Tortricidae
Genus
Adoxophyes
Species
moderatana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Adoxophyes moderatana (Walker, 1863) sec. Pathania, Das & Chandra, 2020

References

  • Robinson, G. S., Tuck, K. R., Shaffer, M. & Cook, K. (1994) A field guide to the smaller moths of South-East Asia. The Natural History Museum, London and Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur, 241 pp.
  • Nedoshivina, S. V. (2013) Lepidoptera Heterocera of Vietnam. Family Tortricidae. Ulyanovsk, 240 pp., 18 pls. [in Russian]
  • Yunus, A. & Ho, T. H. (1980) List of economic pests, host plants, parasites and predators in West Malaysia (1920 - 1978). Bulletin of the Malaysian Department of Agriculture, 153, 1 - 538. [Ministry of Agriculture, Malaysia]
  • Novotny, V., Miller, S. E., Basset, Y., Cizek, L., Darrow, K., Kaupa, B., Kua, J. & Weiblen, G. D. (2005) An altitudinal comparison of caterpillars (Lepidoptera) on Fucus trees in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Biogeography, 32, 1303 - 1314. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2699.2005.01225. x
  • Clarke, J. F. G. (1958) Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Mus. (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick. Vol. 3. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 600 pp.