Plodia interpunctella
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia
- 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
Description
Plodia interpunctella (H ü bner, [1813])
COMMON NAME(S): Indian meal moth. Grain moth, Flour moth, Pantry moth, Weevil moth, North American high-flyer, Indian meal moth, Indian meal moth, Indian Meal Moth, or Indian-Meal Moth.
SYNONYM(S): Tinea zeae Fitch, 1856; Plodia castaneella Reutti, 1898; Unadilla latercula Hampson, 1901a; Ephestia glycinivora Matsumura, 1917; Plodia americana Piutti, 1920; Ephestia glycinivorella Matsumura, 1932.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Canada (British Columbia), Comoros, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark (Faroe Islands), Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hawaii, Hispaniola, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro (Serbia), Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Zambia.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Lusaka, in Lusaka Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): A cosmopolitan stored products pest. Can infest a wide range of dry foodstuffs of vegetable origin, such as cereal, bread, pasta, rice, couscous, flour, spices or dried fruits and nuts. More unusual recorded foods include chocolate and cocoa beans, coffee substitute, cookies, dried mangelwurzel, and even the toxic seeds of Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium). The food they infest will often seem to be webbed together.
SOURCES: De Milliano 1983; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Zambia Quarantine Act 1973.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hubner
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pyralidae
- Genus
- Plodia
- Species
- interpunctella
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Plodia interpunctella (Hubner, 1813) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Fitch, A. (1856) Third report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the state of New York. Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society, 16, 315 - 490. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 4584660]
- Reutti, C. H. (1898) Ubersicht der Lepidopteren-Fauna des Grossherzogtums Baden. 2. Ausgabe des in den Beitragen zur rheinischen Naturgeschichte erschienenen gleichnamigen Werkes. Verhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Karlsruhe, 12, i - xii + 1 - 361.
- Hampson, G. F. (1901 a) The Lepidoptera-Phalaenae of the Bahamas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 7 (39), 246 - 261. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 24345112]
- Matsumura, S. (1917) Oyo-Kinchyngak ¸ [Applied Entomology]. Pt. 1. Injurious insects of the Japanese empire. 2 nd Editio n. Teiseisha, Tokyo, 827 pp.
- De Milliano, W. A. J. (1983) Improvement of wheat in Zambia using incomplete resistance against rusts. PhD thesis, Landbouwhogeschool, Wageningen, (xi) + 156 pp., 55 tbs., 29 figs., 220 refs., English and Dutch summaries. Available from: https: // library. wur. nl / WebQuery / wurpubs / fulltext / 205788 (accessed 31 August 2023)
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2022) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: https: // www. afromoths. net / (accessed 20 June 2023)
- Zambia Quarantine Act (1973) L. N. 480 / 1973. Available from: http: // extwprlegs 1. fao. org / docs / pdf / jam 22489. pdf (accessed 21 August 2023)