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Lobesia vanillana

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Description

Lobesia vanillana (De Joannis, 1900)

Wingspan: 11.5 mm; adult (plate 14: figs 70-71).

A common species at light, 4 specimens I bred from larvae collected at the same site: Réunion, La Possession, alt. 200 m, 20°55'33"S / 55°21'3"E.

Distribution: Kenya, La Réunion, Madagascar, Nigeria, Seychelles, Tanzania.

Biology: I could raise this species from larvae feeding on a mildew (Erysiphaceae) (plate 14: fig. 72) growing on the leaves of Euphorbia heterophylla (Euphorbiaceae), 15-iv-2015 (specimen put into the disposition of the BMNH in June 2015) as well as from the inflorence of Tamarindus indica L. (Fabaceae), 13-v-2015 and Cocos nucifera L. (Arecaceae), 17 & 22-vii-2016.

Notes

Published as part of Bippus, Maik, 2016, New or poorly known Microlepidoptera from the Mascarenes (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae, Bedellidae, Batrachedridae, Carposinidae, Epermeniidae, Gelechiidae, Tineidae, Tortricidae), pp. 347-370 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (2) on page 368, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.2.347-370.1910, http://zenodo.org/record/5373173

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Biodiversity

Family
Tortricidae
Genus
Lobesia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
De Joannis
Species
vanillana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lobesia vanillana (Joannis, 1900) sec. Bippus, 2016